Ukraine Wants Neutral, said President Zelskyy
3 min readZelskyy received his message directly to Russian journalists in video calls that the Kremlin had warned Russian media not to report, said any agreement must be guaranteed by a third party and put into a referendum.
Ukraine was willing to be neutral and compromised on the status of the East Donbass region as part of a peace agreement, President Volodymyr Zelskyy said on Sunday, even the main official of Ukraine accused Russia aiming to engrave countries into two.
Zelskyy received his message directly to Russian journalists in video calls that the Kremlin had warned Russian media not to report, said any agreement must be guaranteed by a third party and put into a referendum.
“Security and neutrality guarantee, non-nuclear status of our country. We are ready to do it,” he said, speaking in Russian.
But even when Turkey will host the talk this week, the Head of Ukrainian Military Intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, said Russian President Vladimir Putin aims to seize the eastern part of Ukraine.
“Actually, this is an effort to create North and South Korea in Ukraine,” he said, referring to the division of Korea after World War Dua. Zelskyy has urged the West to provide Ukrainian tanks, planes and missiles to help fend off Russian troops.
In a call with Putin on Sunday, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan agreed to hold talks this week in Istanbul and called for a ceasefire and a better human condition, his office said. Ukrainian and Russian negotiators confirm that the talks in-people will occur.
High-American officials are sought on Sundays to clarify that the United States does not have a regime change policy in Russia, after President Joe Biden said at the end of the speech in Poland on Saturday that Putin “could not remain in power”.
Minister of State Secretary Antony Blinken said the Biden only means Putin cannot be “empowered to fight” against Ukraine or elsewhere.
After more than four weeks of conflict, Russia has failed to seize the main city of Ukraine and hinted on Friday that it increased its ambition to focus on securing the Donbass area, where the Russian-supported separatist had combed the Ukrainian army for the last eight. Years.
A local leader in the People’s Republic of Luhan who proclaimed himself said on Sunday the area could immediately hold a referendum to join Russia, as happened in Crimea after Russia won the Ukrainian Peninsula in 2014.
Crimea chose vigorously to rest with Ukraine and join Russia – voting that most of the world refused to recognize.
Budanov predicts the Ukrainian Army will expel Russian forces by launching guerrilla war attacks.
“Then there will be a relevant scenario left for Russia, how to survive,” he said.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Ukraine also rejected talks about the referendum in East Ukraine.
“All fake referendums in the temporary occupied area are null and void and will not have legal validity,” Oleg Nikolenko told Reuters.
Moscow said the goal for what Putin was called “Special Military Operation” included Demisitarization and “immersed” neighbors. Ukraine and his Western allies call this pretext for a loadless invasion.
Ukraine has described negotiations before, some of which have occurred in the Allies of Russia Belarus, as “very difficult”.
The invasion has destroyed several Ukrainian cities, causing the main humanitarian crisis and moving around 10 million people, almost a quarter of the Ukrainian population.
Tatyana Mannek, who crossed the Danube with the ferry to Romania on Sunday with other refugees, said the people at home at Odesa’s house was “very scared” but she would still do it for her daughter.
“It would be very difficult to provide children with basic life conditions. That’s why we decided to leave,” he said, gripping a pet dog on his arm.
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