President Zelensky gave an interview to foreign media today. Here is a summary of the conversation with reporters:.
- I am grateful to Poland that they accept our citizens. Many countries accept, but there are some states that are like, "
- this war, a difficult war, it united our nation - the situation is difficult on all fronts, difficult in different ways. Some small towns simply do not exist anymore - it's just a tragedy and these people are no more - today there are 14 humanitarian corridors, which we agreed with the Russian occupiers. But everything is not so simple, there are no gifts from the occupiers - representatives of churches went in the humanitarian corridors, before that the occupiers shot humanitarian corridors. There is also the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate, if they start shooting at them, then I have no words - 100% we know that there will be a victory and 100% we do not know when it will be. Our diplomats are working and discussing some details of the agreements that may be between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. The beginning should be with a ceasefire, we all understand this and this will unblock humanitarian processes - I am glad that for the first time in 2 years I hear from Russia that there may be a dialogue. And we turned to them not even dozens of times.. You must understand that all these thousands of deaths are because Russia has never confirmed the meeting. At first there were ultimatums from the side of the Russian Federation, now we see that there was no three / four-day occupation by the Russian Federation, as well as a change in the leadership of our state. Even if a million Russian citizens are brought here to die, it is impossible to occupy Ukrainians. It is possible to fill Ukraine with the corpses of the Russian military, but it is impossible to occupy the heads of our people - more integration of our Western partners is needed in the negotiations between Ukraine and Russia. Russia cannot give security guarantees after such a bloody war. Security guarantees must be offered by leaders of other countries.
- if there are tens, hundreds of thousands of people whom Russia mobilizes, they will come with thousands of tanks and enter Kyiv. We understand it. If they carry out carpet bombing and simply decide to erase all the memory of this region, the history of Kievan Rus, they will go to Kyiv. If they destroy us all, they will enter Kyiv. If this is the goal, then let them come in, but they will have to live on this earth without us, they definitely won’t find friends among us - there is no agreed position to take Ukraine into NATO, and I don’t see or hear it. Even when we talk about closing the sky, in such trifles for NATO leaders and such important things for Ukrainians, there is no agreed position. There is no courage in uniting NATO in such a matter, and this is a big problem, a problem in philosophy - we are grateful for the support that some NATO countries give us and grateful for the support that the Alliance talks about - regarding Israel, I have a positive attitude towards Israeli mediation. Jerusalem can be a meeting point for world leaders - when we talk about a security treaty and which countries should be there, Israel should definitely be among these countries - Ukraine is a reflection of what free people around the world think. How we fight I think everyone sees. And the fact that people all over the world come out to their squares is not just like that, they all believe that Europe and the world should do more and now they are not doing enough. Otherwise, they would go out to their squares and applaud their leaders and tell them words of gratitude that they did not abandon Ukraine. The fact that in Ukraine today is what will happen in Europe tomorrow and for this everyone must fight for themselves, in our country - it seems to me that some leaders will sit in a cafe and until a bomb arrives in this cafe, they will not believe. I definitely don’t wish this on anyone - to close the sky, there is anti-missile defense that can be supplied to Ukraine, we found this type of weaponry all over the world, specifically to warehouses. We said that we are ready to buy these systems. Everyone is ready, but not those who decide such issues - Russia carries out terrorist acts that are of a daily nature. Shooting at a maternity hospital in Mariupol or firing missiles at the center of Kharkov - they shot one mayor of the city, they stole the mayor of Melitopol.
They torture him there because he does not want to say that he is glad to see the Russian authorities. They need a video. I called Scholz, Macron and Duda about this. And they can show how strong they are to let the mayor go.. They can call Putin, he does not want to talk to me - we believe that we deserve to be in the European Union and we do not need to promise anything, we need to be supported - about 500-600 prisoners of the Russian army are now in Ukraine who have surrendered -.