Vladimir Zelensky President said that he was ready for a dialogue with Russia on the issue of Crimea, as well as the so-called “Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics”. On the eve, the Kremlin said that the Russian Federation will stop “military operation” in Ukraine on three conditions: if Kyiv recognizes the Crimea Russian, recognizes the independence of the “DPP” and “LNR”, and also refuses to enter into an “any block”. This is reported today Kommersant, commenting on the interview with the President of Ukraine American television company ABC.
Vladimir Zelensky in an interview noted that no one except the Russian authorities recognized the independence of “pseudo-pub”. “But we can discuss and find a compromise on how the occupied territories and these republics will exist. What is important to me – this is how people who want to be part of Ukraine will live there,” said the President of Ukraine.
Zelensky stressed that Ukraine is not ready for ultimatums. ” He is convinced that “Vladimir Putin needs to start talking, start a dialogue.” According to Vladimir Zelensky, his Russian colleague “lives in the information bubble.” “I think he is in this bubble, and we do not know how realistic the information he receives,” said the President of Ukraine.
Vladimir Zelensky also told that he was not ready for surrender, because he was elected president. He confirmed that the countries of the West offered him to leave Ukraine, but he refused to do.
In addition, Vladimir Zelensky commented on Vladimir Putin’s words that the military operation was carried out for the “deninciple and demilitarization” of Ukraine. “I think that denazification in this case is the destruction of the nation … This is pure Nazism, it is the destruction of the Ukrainian nation. As in the 1940s, when Germany was engaged in denazification of Jews. And I’m shocked, I did not think that this could be done in the modern world, “Vladimir Zelensky added.
Also, Vladimir Zelensky spoke on NATO: “Regarding NATO, I cooled to this issue after we realized that NATO was not ready to take Ukraine. The Alliance is afraid of conflicting things and confrontation with the Russian Federation.”
He also noted that Ukraine does not want to be a country that “asks something on his knees, and we are not going to be such a country, I don’t want to be such a president.”