Zelenskiy Willing Ukraine to Be Neutral and Compromise on Status of the Eastern Donbass Region

LVIV, KOMPAS.com – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine willing to be neutral and compromise on the status of the eastern Donbass region as part of peace deal.

He said this on Sunday (27/3/2022), even as another high-ranking Ukrainian official accused Russia trying to divide their country in two.

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Zelenskiy delivered his message directly to Russian journalists in a video call that the Kremlin had previously warned Russian media not to report.

He said any deal should be guaranteed by a third party and put in referendum.

“Security guarantees and neutrality, the non-nuclear status of our country. We are ready to do it,” he said, speaking in Russian as reported by Reuters. Reuters.

However, Ukraine’s head of military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, said Russian President Vladimir Putin had seized the eastern part of Ukraine, ahead of an attempt to Russian-Ukrainian negotiations latest this week in Turkey.

“In fact, it was an attempt to create North and South Korea in Ukraine,” he said, referring to the division of Korea after the Second World War.

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Zelenskiy urged the West to provide Ukrainian tanks, planes and missiles to help fend off Russian troops.

While in his evening video address, he insisted on Ukraine’s “territorial integrity” in every negotiation.

In a phone call with Putin on Sunday (27/3/2022), Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan agreed to hold talks this week in Istanbul and called for a ceasefire and better humanitarian conditions, his office said.

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