2023-07-12 21:26:00
The Ukrainian president explained on Wednesday that he wanted to “recover our lands” in Ukraine and “punish all the crimes” committed by the Russian army since the start of the war, more than 500 days ago.
Kiev will not be content with a “freeze” of the front against Russian troops and intends to recover all of its occupied territories, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on the second day of the NATO summit in Vilnius.
“We want to recover our lands, restore security on our territory, obtain the return of people who were forced to leave the country” and “punish all Russian crimes”, he insisted.
“That’s victory” and “a frozen conflict is not a victory,” he added.
“We will not flinch!”
Throughout the day, Volodymyr Zelensky multiplied the messages of thanks for the “enormous help” received by Ukraine from Western leaders who are members of NATO.
After sharply reproaching the leaders of the Alliance on Tuesday for not having set a timetable for the integration of his country into this organization, the Ukrainian leader took care to smooth things over on the last day of the summit.
“Thank you very much. You, all the Americans, the Congress (…) You have been with us since the first days of this war. We are very sensitive to it”, he launched on the occasion of a one-on-one with his American counterpart.
“We will not bend!” Warned Joe Biden in a speech at Vilnius University, stressing that Russian President Vladimir Putin had failed in his attempt to “break” the Atlantic Alliance.
“The future of Ukraine is in NATO,” he had assured a little earlier. But, in the meantime, “we are going to help (the Ukrainians) to build strong defensive capacities on land, at sea and in the air”, he said, before praising the courage of this country, an example “for the whole world”.
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