“We must use any way, take any chance of being able to talk to Putin . If these attempts fail, then it means that this is World War III.” Volodymyr Zelensky does not use half words in an interview with the US broadcaster CNN.
The Ukrainian president said he was ready to negotiate with the president of the Russian Federation, but warned that if the attempts fail, the chances of a third world conflict would be very high. “I am ready to deal with him. I was ready for the past two years. And I think that without negotiations we cannot end this war,” Zelensky said. “If there is only a 1% chance for us to stop it, we have to take it. We have to do it.”
” The Russian forces came to exterminate us, to kill us ”, the Ukrainian president continued, underlining that ” with the dignity of our people and our army we have been able to demonstrate that we have been able to deliver a powerful blow, but unfortunately our dignity is not saving lives. Hence the need to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin ”.
During the interview, the Ukrainian president and then went into the details of the negotiations with Russia. “There are ” compromises on the territorial integrity ‘of Ukraine that Kiev cannot accept,” he said, “compromises to which, as an independent state, we are not ready to go”. Zelensky then underlined the drama of the current situation in their country under attack and re-launched the need for greater protection from NATO. “If we had been members of NATO, a war would not have started. I would like to receive guarantees of security for my country, for my people,” he said. “If NATO members were ready to see us in the alliance, then they should do it immediately because people are dying here every day,” he added.
Regarding Putin’s words regarding the presence in the Ukrainian government of neo-Nazis Zelensky, he retorted that Russian President Putin is capable of horrendous actions and his words: “They cannot be taken seriously because they are ‘ridiculous’, but at the same very dangerous and frightening times. ” “If he sees neo-Nazis in our country, then a lot of questions arise about what else he is capable of doing to carry out his mission,” Zelensky said.
“I think that without negotiations we cannot end this war, if any. ‘only 1% chance for us to stop it, we must seize it ”
Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukrainian President
Z elensky to the Israelis: Russia wants the final solution
“We want to live but our neighbors want us dead, there is not much room for compromise”: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, speaking to the Knesset, quoted former Israeli premier, born in Ukraine, Golda Meir, when it drew the parallels with the situation in Ukraine and Israel. “It is not a Russian exercise in Ukraine, it is a full-scale war. Russia aims to destroy our people, our children, our sovereignties. Like the Jews who sought safety and to escape the Nazis. . They want a ‘ final solution ‘, without this war they could not put an end to the Ukrainian question, just like 80 years ago with the Jewish people, “Zelensky said.
