"I’m speaking to you today because there are things that are being kept from you," he said. "Terrible things that you should know about."
Highlights
- Arnold Schwarzenegger posted a heartfelt nine-minute video message on Twitter.
- He spoke of his admiration for the Russian people and his father’s experience in World War II.
- Schwarzenegger: “To President Putin, I say: You started this war.
- You are leading this war” He said the Russian government’s claim that it’s attempting to “de-Nazify” Ukraine was completely untrue, pointing out that Ukraine’s president, Volodymir Zelenskyy, is Jewish and lost relatives in the Holocaust.
- He ended the video by speaking to Russians who have protested their country’s invasion of Ukraine.
- He said: “We know that you’ve suffered the consequences of your courage”