Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ruled out on Wednesday October 16 ceding territory to Russia or accepting a freeze of the front line, believing that the Kremlin must lose the war launched in February 2022. “Russia must lose the war against “There cannot be a ‘freeze’ (of the front). There cannot be any exchange concerning the territory of Ukraine or its sovereignty,” he told the deputies during the meeting. a speech to present his “victory plan”.
Ukraine and its allies must “force Russia to participate in a peace summit and be ready to end the war,” he added, advocating the deployment of non-nuclear deterrents in its country and asking the West again to lift restrictions on long-range weapons.
“Ukraine proposes to deploy on its territory a comprehensive set of non-nuclear strategic deterrent measures, which will be sufficient to protect Ukraine from any military threat from Russia,” he said, specifying that this point was detailed in a “secret annex” to his victory plan and had been presented to the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Germany.