Any ceasefire that allows Russia to keep Ukrainian territories captured since its February invasion will only fuel an even wider conflict, giving Moscow the opportunity it needs to resupply and rearm for the next round.. This was stated by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in an interview with The Wall Street Journal..

“Freezing the conflict with the Russian Federation means a pause that gives the Russian Federation time to rest,” he said, adding that the enemy is using this pause not to revise its policy, but to concentrate new forces.

“This is a sperm whale that swallowed two regions and now says: freeze the conflict,” Zelensky said, comparing Russia with the largest whale. - Then he will rest and in two or three years he will capture two more regions and again say: freeze the conflict. And it will go on and on. One hundred percent"

Zelensky is convinced that there can be no negotiations with Moscow, because Ukraine tried to find a diplomatic solution for three years before a full-scale invasion on February 24, but to no avail.. Putin's statements about Ukraine's unwillingness to discuss the Ukrainian president are outraged:.

“He came here without talking, killed people, moved 12 million, and now he says that Ukraine does not want to negotiate. They just kill people, destroy cities, enter them, and then they say: Let's make a deal.. Who can they talk to? With rocks? They are in the blood and this blood cannot be washed away.

We will not let them wash it off,” he stressed, adding that after all the tragedies of the past five months, the citizens of Ukraine are not in the mood for negotiations with Russia..

“Society believes that all territories must first be liberated, and then it will be possible to agree on what to do and how to live in the next centuries,” he said..

He noted that Ukrainians do not doubt their ability to do this..

“We would prefer de-occupation in a way that is not military and in order to save lives. But we deal with who we deal with. Until their faces are broken, they will not understand anything,"