Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin is not interested in peace, rather trying to “complete defeat” of Ukraine. Only strong pressure from the US and Europe could force it to take a pragmatic attitude. In an interview for the American TV station ABC News posted on Sunday said it Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj. Informed DPA.
Greenya defended the operation of the cobweb of the planned 18 months, in which Ukraine unexpectedly attacked drones to military airports at the depth of Russia, where it destroyed or damaged several strategic bombers. The Kremlin has marked an extensive attack as a terrorist act, which Greeda refused. “It’s a pure and clear military operation. It is a step that has shown everyone that we don’t want this war. We don’t want to fight,” he said.
Greeding rejected the words of US President Donald Trump, who at a meeting with German office Friedrich Merz in an oval office compared the war in Ukraine to a quarrel of two young children and said that “sometimes it is better to let them fight for a while and then separate them”. “We are not children on the playground in the park with Putin,” Zelenskyj stressed. “That’s why I say it’s a killer who came to this park to kill children.”
The Ukrainian President does not share Trump’s view that the end of the war and the surrender of Moscow are possible. “With all due respect to President Trump, I think it’s just his personal opinion,” said Greeding. “I am firmly convinced that Putin does not want to end this war. For Putin, the end of the war is not possible without the complete defeat of Ukraine. Ukraine understands Russian mentality better than Americans. We have been neighbors for years,” stated.
Nevertheless, Zelenskyj thinks that his relationship with Trump has improved since their confrontation in the White House. In particular, their fifteen -minute meeting between four eyes in the Vatican “contributed to the construction of trust more than meeting many people present in an oval office”. At the same time, he wants to believe that both have a “normal, equal professional relationship”.
Before the upcoming G7 summits in Canada and NATO in the Netherlands, Zelendy called Europe for greater determination. “We need to increase the pressure on Moscow, we need to tighten sanctions and we need to look for ways to use frozen Russian funds in favor of our defense,“Said Greeding Sunday evening in his regular speech. As Russia understands only the language of strength, he should become a working language in all interaction formats on the international scene.
