(Finance) – The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskysaid he was ready to talk to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, “but there must be no ultimatum and the Russians must get out of our territory.” “It is the first step to talk”, he underlined in an interview with Porta a Porta which will be broadcast tonight on Rai 1, the first to be released on Italian television. Zelensky then added: “The question of negotiations it gets complicated every day because every day the Russians occupy villages and kill people ”.
Zelensky further stated that theUkraine she is also ready to make one exchange with the Russians to save the survivors and bring out those who died a Azovstal. “The civilians have already been evacuated, now the wounded remain, we don’t want to leave them there. Everything possible will be done,” she said. As for the possibility of a Transnistrian attack, you said you think it is possible, “but we are not very worried”. The Ukrainian president then thanked Italy for joining the sanctions and commented on the statements made yesterday by the prime minister Mario Draghi in Washington. “We are not on an equal footing, but the world is united around us. Draghi is right: we can win because we are fighting for the truth,” she stressed.
As for possible negotiations with the RussiaZelensky said he never talked about recognizing the independence of Crimea, “we will never recognize it as part of Russia. Crimea has always had its autonomy, it has its own parliament, but within Ukraine”. In general, he stressed that “proposing to us to give something up to save the face of the Russian president is not correct on the part of some leaders”. In addition, while thanking the Dad for the efforts in the direction of a truce, he called it “unacceptable” that the Russian and Ukrainian flags were paraded together at the Via Crucis.
Meanwhile, the French foreign minister, Jean-Yves Le Driansaid that “Ukraine’s request to obtain EU candidate country status – currently under examination by the Commission – will be the subject of a discussion at the level of leaders during the European Council next month June “. In recent days, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, had reported that the EU executive will express its opinion on Kiev’s request next month.