MOSCOW, Feb 25 — Russian President Vladimir Putin today called on the Ukrainian army to overthrow the country’s leadership whom he described as "terrorists” and "a gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis”.

Addressing the Ukrainian military in a televised address, he urged them to "take power in your own hands.”

"It seems like it will be easier for us to agree with you than this gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis,” he said, referring to leadership in Kyiv led by President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is Jewish. — AFP