Nearly three years after the start of the war in Ukraine, is Russia gaining the upper hand? While American aid to kyiv threatens to be reduced or even abandoned by Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin’s troops seem to be making progress on the front. To the readers of Le Parisien this Tuesday, December 17, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky nevertheless assured that his country is not “in a weak situation”.
“I do not consider that we are in a situation of weakness, but we are not in a situation of strength either,” says the former actor, who questions the behavior of his main allies: the European Union and the United States.
Zelensky wants to establish “an action plan or a peace plan”
“Are we in NATO? We don’t know. Will we be part of the European Union? Yes, in the future, but when? Sitting down at the table with Putin in these conditions would be give him the right to decide everything in our part of the world,” said Volodymyr Zelensky.
In recent weeks, US President-elect Donald Trump has pleaded for the Ukrainian president and his Russian counterpart to put an end to “the carnage”. He insisted during the American presidential campaign that he was capable of obtaining a ceasefire in 24 hours.
“We must first establish a model, an action plan or a peace plan, whatever you want to call it. Then we can submit it to Putin or, more broadly, to the Russians,” continues Volodymyr Zelenksy.
“But I insist: no leader in the world has the right to hold talks with Putin without Ukraine. We have never delegated this mandate to anyone. We are the victims. It would be “It’s unfair that everyone starts saying how a country should live. The French in France, the Italians in Italy or the Americans in the United States know what they want for themselves,” insists the president. Ukrainian.
Speaking to Le Parisien, Volodymyr Zelensky also states that he has “the impression that everyone is terrorized by Putin’s Russia”, believing that the head of the Kremlin is “with impunity”. The Russian president must be “put in his place”, he says.
Original article published on BFMTV.com
