Ukraine is prepared to discuss adopting neutral status as part of a peace agreement with Russia but such a pact must be guaranteed by a third party and put into a referendum, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in the comments that aired on Sunday.
Zelenskiy spoke to Russian journalists in a 90-minute video call, an interview that Moscow’s authority had pre-emptive warned Russian media to refrain from reporting. Zelenskiy spoke in Russian throughout, as he had done in a previous speech when targeting Russian audiences.
Zelenskiy said the Russian invasion has caused the destruction of Russian-language cities in Ukraine, with worse damage than the Russian war in Chechnya.
Speaking more than a month after Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, Zelenskiy said there was no peace agreement that might occur without a ceasefire and withdrawal of troops. He ruled out trying to recapture all the areas held by Russia forcibly, said it would lead to Third World War, and said he wanted to achieve “compromise” in the East Donbas region, which was held by Russian-supported forces since 2014.
‘HUMANITARIAN CATASTROPHE’
Zelenskiy focuses on the fate of the eastern port city of Mariupol, under the siege for weeks. Once a city of 400,000 people, he has experienced a prolonged Russian bombing.
“All entries and exits from Mariupol city are blocked,” Zelenskiy said. “The port is mined. A humanitarian disaster in the city is firm, because it is impossible to go there with food, medicine and water,” he said. “I did not even know who the Russian soldier had been treated like this,” he said, While adding it. , compared to the Russian war in Chechnya, the volume of destruction “cannot be compared”.
He was also dismissed as an accusation of “jokes” made by Russia that Ukraine had nuclear or chemical weapons. The Russian prosecutor said the legal opinion would be carried out on a statement made in an interview and in the legality of the issuance of interviews.
Commenting on after that, Zelenskiy said Russia destroyed freedom of speech in his own country. “The Russian sensor body came out with a threat,” Zelenskiy said at the video address of the night. “It will be ridiculous if it’s not too tragic.”