After Trump and Russian chief Putin sidelined Ukraine, saying the beginning of peace talks earlier than presenting the plan to Kyiv, Zelenskyy is bidding to win again a number one function on the negotiating desk.
“Trump is stronger than Putin, I believe so. However these telephone calls with Putin are dangerous to us,” Zelenskyy stated.
In 2019 Zelenskyy held direct talks with Putin a couple of cease-fire and prisoner trade, because the Kremlin’s long-running struggle raged in Ukraine’s japanese Donbas area. Whereas Putin certainly agreed to launch 100 Ukrainian prisoners from Russia, his troops violated the cease-fire straight away.
“He is not going to persist with cease-fire and that’s all. That’s the reason I instructed the president [Trump] that I believe telephone calls are telephone calls. However don’t make any selections on Ukraine with out Ukraine. And it isn’t about me, it’s about all the nation. If we agree on a pause it’s going to assist Putin. And I don’t need to go [down] in historical past as [the] president who helped Putin to occupy my nation,” Zelenskyy stated.
Zelenskyy remains to be ready to be invited to Washington for talks with Trump, although he stated he is prepared for that at any level. Ukraine’s president additionally stated there’s a number of work forward as no treaties could be signed in Munich.
“A peace treaty can’t be signed in Munich, as a result of that is Munich and we bear in mind what issues had been signed right here prior to now,” Zelenskyy added on the panel on Friday, referring to the 1938 Munich settlement that led to Nazi Germany occupying the Sudetenland.
