Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski reiterated Thursday his refusal to negotiate with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, until Putin orders the final withdrawal of Russian troops from the country.
In this sense, he stressed that talks «will only be possible if Russia withdraws its soldiers, admits its mistake and appoints a new government», as he said during an interview with the British television channel Sky News.
«Only then would it be possible,» he has said before stressing that meeting with Putin «would not make any sense.» «For me this is not interesting, neither meeting nor talking,» he has maintained. «They don’t want to talk. That was their position even before the invasion. That’s what Putin decided,» he said.
In this sense, he has warned that Ukraine «is only a first step for Putin». «Before the war, there were meetings. I saw a man who said he was going to do one thing and did another. For me, right now, he is nobody,» he continued.
On the other hand, he has accused Russia of sending soldiers to war who serve as «cannon fodder.» «They don’t care about casualties», he asserted, although he admitted the strong pressure exerted by the British Army in the region of Zaporiyia.
«It is an extraordinary number. They don’t even care. I mean, they don’t take their own people into account…. But from what we have seen and counted, there are thousands of dead on their side and they just keep sending them, throwing them in and throwing them in,» he said.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
