According to him, the Ukrainian side understands all the risks and sees no reason to trust the words that come from certain representatives of the state that continues to fight for our destruction.
The Ukrainian side understands all the risks during negotiations with the Russian Federation, Zelensky said / photo REUTERS
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky commented on the negotiation process with the Russian Federation, noting that VSU – for today the only guarantee of our survival.
He stated this in his video message.
“The defense of Ukraine is now the number one task, and everything else is a derivative of this. It is on this basis that I consider reports on the negotiation process, which continues at various levels with representatives of the Russian Federation. The enemy is still on our territory. The shelling of our cities continue. Mariupol is blocked. Missile and air strikes do not stop. This is reality. These are facts. Therefore, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, our intelligence, everyone who joined the defense of the state, is today the only guarantee of our survival. As a people. As a state .
A guarantee that works. Yes, we can call positive the signals that we hear from the negotiation platform. But these signals do not drown out the explosions of Russian shells,” the president said.
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According to him, the Ukrainian side understands all the risks and sees no reason to trust the words that come from certain representatives of the state that continues to fight for our destruction.
“Ukrainians are not naive people. Ukrainians have already learned both during these 34 days of the invasion and over the past eight years of the war in Donbass that you can trust only a concrete result. Facts – if they change on our land. Of course, Ukraine is set to negotiate and will continue the negotiation process. To the extent that it really depends on us. We count on the result. There must be real security for us, for our state, for sovereignty, for our people. Russian troops must leave the occupied areas. Sovereignty and territorial integrity Ukraine must be guaranteed. There can be no compromises on sovereignty and our territorial integrity. And there won’t be. These are clear principles. This is a clear vision of a possible result. And for those in social networks who perceive words as if they are already facts, I want to remind one : we live in a democratic state and fight for our freedom, for freedom for our people, so any decisions that Which are important for our entire people, should be accepted not by one person or a group of people with any political views, but by all of our people. Wise people of Ukraine,” the President stressed.
As UNIAN reported earlier, the first round of talks between the delegations of Ukraine and the Russian Federation took place in Istanbul today. Ukraine proposes to sign an international treaty on a new system of security guarantees for it. The chairman of the Servant of the People faction in the Ukrainian parliament, and now the representative of the Ukrainian delegation at the talks with Russia, David Arakhamia, said that official Kyiv now sees the countries of the UN Security Council among the guarantors, including Russia, the USA, Great Britain, China, France, and also Turkey, Germany, Canada, Italy, Poland and Israel.
Diplomat Oleksandr Chaly, who heads the legal team in the Ukrainian delegation in negotiations with Russia, said that the Ukrainian delegation is seeking to sign a security guarantee agreement, which should become a diplomatic format for ending the war that Russia started against Ukraine.
According to him, Ukraine is ready to fix the non-bloc status and the status of a non-nuclear state in the form of permanent neutrality without entering into military-political alliances.
At the same time, according to Chaly, there will be no objections to the possibility of Ukraine’s accession to the European Union in the security guarantee agreement.
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