Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes that freezing a full-scale war with Russia will encourage it to escalate the conflict.
Source: The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy
“Freezing the conflict with the Russian Federation means a pause that gives the Russian Federation a break to rest. They will not use this pause to change their geopolitics or abandon their claims to the former Soviet republics,” he noted.
“It is a cachalot that has swallowed two regions and now says: Freeze the conflict,” President Zelenskyy retorted, comparing Russia to the largest toothed whale. ” Then it will rest and in two or three years, it will seize two more regions and say again: Freeze the conflict. And it will keep going further and further. One hundred percent.”
Zelenskyy added that after the events of the last five months, Ukrainians do not want to negotiate with Russia.
“Society believes that first all territories must be liberated, and then it will be possible to agree on what to do and how to live in the next centuries. Our people are convinced that we can do it. And the sooner we do it, the less will die.”
