“President Putin’s tactics are as dirty as Hitler’s in his day,” Volodymyr Zelensky said. “The attacks are once morest water and electricity infrastructures, to sow panic, to push people to flee, in order to have a free hand to destroy deserted towns using their heavy artillery, before to send the infantry”.
”Vladimir Putin, let me tell you what your generals and ministers dare not tell you”
And the Ukrainian head of state fears that these kinds of targeted strikes won’t stop anytime soon. He is also aware that a new offensive may be carried out by the Russian army in the weeks to come. “You can understand their desire for revenge. Their obsession is to attack our country, to occupy our territory. They never gave up on this project, I believe. But the question is: are they capable of it?” Volodymyr Zelensky wondered.
The Ukrainian president is convinced that his Russian counterpart “does not want peace”. “I am not convinced that he is ready to draw conclusions from the tragedy he has inflicted on Ukraine, on the world, but first and foremost on his own country […] He thinks only of his profit and his personal interest […] He doesn’t care regarding Russian society, which he rules as if the citizens were slaves,” Zelensky added, saying that Vladimir Putin “always does things in a roundregarding way” and that he sees “reality in a distorted way in her head”.
In the current state of things, the Ukrainian does not see “matter to negotiate” with the Russian president. Unless Russia puts itself in certain arrangements, he said: “All that interests us is to liberate our lands, the territories currently held by the Russians. This will require talking to a Russia that is ready to respect its interlocutor, and that will begin to give back to us what is ours in accordance with international law. It is with a Russia like that that I will be ready to negotiate, but not with the Russia that we have at the moment, a Nazi Russia”.
