“The enemy is still in our territory. The firing on our city continues. Mariupol is blocked. Missile and aviation strikes do not stop. That is the reality. That is why the Ukrainian Armed Forces, our intelligence service, everyone who has joined the national defense – it is today the only guarantee of our survival. [Izdzīvošanas] as a nation, as a state, “Zelensky said.
“It’s a guarantee that works. Yes, the signals we hear from the negotiating ground can be described as positive. However, these signals do not dampen the explosions of Russian shells,” Zelensky said.
He said that the Ukrainian side understands all the risks and sees no reason to trust the words of the country, which continues to fight to destroy Ukraine.
“Ukrainians are not naive people. Ukrainians have already learned both in these 34 days of the invasion and in the last eight years of the Donbass war that you can trust only a certain result. The facts – if they change on our land. To the extent that it really depends on us, we are hoping for a result, there must be real security for us, our country, our sovereignty, our people, the Russian troops must leave the occupied territories, and Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity must be guaranteed. sovereignty and our territorial integrity cannot exist, and they will not. and we are fighting for our freedom, for the freedom of our nation, so any decisions that are important to our whole nation must be made not a group of people with any political views, but our entire nation. To the smart people of Ukraine, “the president stressed.
It has already been reported that the first round of talks between the Ukrainian and Russian delegations took place in Istanbul on Tuesday. Ukraine has proposed signing an international agreement on a new security guarantee scheme for the country.
