Zelenskyy additionally advised Italian RAI state TV in an interview scheduled to be broadcast on Thursday night time that Ukraine won’t ever acknowledge Crimea as a part of Russia, which annexed that a part of southern Ukraine in 2014.
“Crimea has at all times had its autonomy, it has its parliament, however on the within of Ukraine,” Zelenskyy stated, in excerpts of the interview that RAI launched earlier on Thursday.
The interviewer requested the Ukrainian chief a couple of remark by French President Emmanuel Macron cautioning in opposition to any humiliation of Putin.
“We wish the Russian military to go away our land, we aren’t on Russian soil,” Zelenskyy replied. “We can’t save Putin’s face by paying with our territory. That might be unjust.”
In one other remark, Zelenskyy sounded a forward-looking observe. “We’ve to think about the way forward for Russia. I, as president of Ukraine, say these are our neighbors. There shall be different presidents, different presidents and different generations” of Russia, Zelenskyy stated.
