Zelensky tells Russia to withdraw troops for “diplomatic direction” – without force from Ukraine.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that if Russia wants a “diplomatic direction” for resolving the war in Ukraine, it must withdraw its troops from the occupied territories without expecting Ukraine’s forceful de-occupation.

Source: Zelensky interview Latin American media

Direct speech: “If Russia wants a diplomatic direction, they should go out without waiting for us to die a lot of people and we push them out by force. I think that’s a big difference. Yes, the result is the same, on the one hand. I think not. I believe that we are de-occupying our territories. And how, for me, it is very important – to lose people or reduce losses. And then, again, it depends on whether we are ready for any dialogue.”

Details: Zelensky stressed that whether Ukraine de-occupies its territory by military means or not depends only on Russia.

Direct speech: “Today our partners see this. And already those countries that were skeptical, for example, Germany, Chancellor Scholz, openly say:” I believe that there is nothing to talk about with Russia until it leaves the territory. not until Ukraine de-occupies, but until Russia leaves, because there is a logic for me here. If you want to talk to me and talk to the civilized world, you must not wait until they knock you out by force. And they will knock you out. Because, knocking out by force and army, we lose people. The question is not time, God bless him, for the sake of victory we do not get tired. If we knock them out by force, then when we push them out of our territory, what should they talk to us about? What’s the point of talking already?

I think that then Russia will look for other leaders who can find an approach to the entire civilized world, find an opportunity for some people to sit down with them at least to talk about something, because after what they have done, to dialogue no one is ready for them. It’s if we knock out by force, that’s why there’s such a big difference.”

More details: Zelensky expressed confidence that “any other leadership of the Russian Federation will look for a way out of this situation” and even Russian society “already understands that the issue of their internal explosion is a matter of time.”

The President called the statements of the Russian leadership that if Russia loses in this war, then it will not be a substitution of facts and concepts.

“If we fight to the end and push them out by force, they will definitely not be in the form in which they are now. Because they will have a public outburst, that they have lost both the state, and respect, and a place at the diplomatic table, and lost the army, lost everything. They will have a revolution inside and not one. Because a large territory, and different people, different peoples live there. Therefore, there will be a lot of things,” Zelensky said.

According to him, for the leadership of the Russian Federation “today there is no easy way out, because they are murderers.”

“But with the least losses – they have the opportunity to find a diplomatic way out of the situation. This means without bullets, without explosions, without missiles, to start leaving our territory,” he said.

What came before: The press secretary of the Russian dictator Dmitry Peskov said that Vladimir Putin is allegedly open to any contacts to achieve the goals of the Russian Federation by other means than the war against Ukraine.