“Russia may have already started World War III,” according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“The outcome of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has yet to be decided, but it’s possible the decision has set off a path to a full-scale global war,” Zelenskyy told “NBC Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt when asked whether he understood concerns from President Joe Biden about not escalating tensions with or provoking Moscow.
“Nobody knows whether it may have already started. And what is the possibility of this war if Ukraine will fall, in case Ukraine will? It’s very hard to say,” Zelenskyy said. “And we’ve seen this 80 years ago, when the Second World War had started … nobody would be able to predict when the full-scale war would start.”
He further emphasized that the outcome of this war puts the “whole civilization at stake.”
Until Zelensky declared WW3 had begun on Wednesday, Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman warned in a Tweet on Saturday that World War III has “likely started already” amid Russia’s ongoing attack on Ukraine.
In January 2020, I had nightmares about the potential for a pandemic, but everyone seemed to think I was crazy. I am having similar nightmares now. WWIII has likely started already, but we have been slow to recognize it. Putin has invaded Ukraine and it is not going well
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) March 6, 2022
On Saturday, Ackman said that “WWIII has likely started already, but we have been slow to recognize it,” although he added that there was “much more we can do before we enter a hot war with Russia.”