kyiv (EFE).- The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, stated this Saturday that the head of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, does not want peace if he sits down to negotiate, but rather ends his isolation and has warned that negotiations with Russia They are possible only in conditions of strength on the part of Ukraine.
“I think Putin doesn’t want peace. But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t want to sit at the negotiating table with any of the leaders. For him it is about breaking political isolation. For him it is beneficial. Sit down, talk, and not negotiate,” Zelensky declared in an interview on the occasion of the centenary of Ukrainian Radio.
For the head of the Kremlin “it is favorable to negotiate with some kind of surrender conditions on our part,” he said, adding that “no one will give it to him.”
Zelensky admits difficult situation at the front
On the other hand, Zelensky declared that negotiations with Moscow are possible “as long as Ukraine is not alone with Russia and (Ukraine) is strong.”
“What kind of negotiations can there be with a murderer? If we talk only with Putin, only with the murderer, and we are in the conditions we are in now, not strengthened by some important elements, it is from the outset a loser status for Ukraine. In a weak position, there is nothing to do in these negotiations,” he said.
The Ukrainian president has recognized that at the moment the situation in the east of the country is complicated, with a slow advance of Russian troops and no possibility of rotation on the front line, due to the lack of weapons and equipment in the reserve brigades. .
“In the east, the situation is really difficult. There is a slow pressure and advance of the Russians. For several reasons, filling our brigades with trained people, filling and equipping the brigades with weapons, all these processes were quite slow,” he lamented.
Russian artillerymen in a file image. EFE/Yuri Kochetkov
“First the people and then the land”
“We have waited twelve months for some weapons to be delivered to us after they were approved by the US Congress,” he continued.
According to the president, due to the Russian offensive and fatigue, the soldiers “ask if they can take steps back” and the military leadership says “yes”, because “this is our common position: first the people and then the land,” he added. .
Zelensky was convinced that Russia cannot continue advancing with casualties of between 1,500 and 2,000 wounded and dead per day and added that “in some areas, the advance has already slowed down.”
However, he added, “you have to understand what the Russians want” and stated that it is a state that “does not value its people and does not care how many die.”
“And for our part, we must do everything possible to ensure that the war ends next year. Through diplomatic means. “This is very important,”
