South Korean presidential candidate for the ruling Democratic party faces backlash after placing blame on the Ukrainian president for the Russian invasion during a presidential debate. The 2022 South Korean presidential election is scheduled for March 9, less than a week away. Meanwhile, the war in Ukraine has come into the international spotlight as the situation intensifies. Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party (DP) made the controversial remarks during a televised presidential debate on Feb. 25, attributing the Russian invasion to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s political inexperience. “In Ukraine, a novice politician of six months became president and declared [Ukraine’s] accession to NATO, which provoked Russia and eventually led to a clash,” Lee said, according to Yonhap News Agency. That same day, Lee walked back his remarks and apologized, saying his intention was to highlight his main political rival’s inexperience in diplomacy and not to mock the Ukrainian leader. “I …