The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyhas disdained the new “ultimatum” from his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin -which involves kyiv’s resignation from NATO and its withdrawal from the east and south of the country-, as part of the “new wave of Russian Nazism”.
“What can we say about this ultimatum? It is no different from others I have given before“, dismissed a Zelensky, for whom Putin’s territorial aspirations are nothing more than a “historical slander” and warns that this “new wave of russian nazism” will spread everywhere if it is not stopped.
“It is about the rebirth of Nazism. It is a new wave of this Russian Nazism. Everything that Putin says, about giving them part of our territories that they have occupied and even not, (…) that he will stop and that the conflict will not freeze, are the same messages that Hitler used.”noted the Ukrainian president.
“We cannot believe these messages. Today he talks about four regions, before only Crimea and Donbas existed,” Zelensky said during an interview for the Italian network Sky TG24in relation to Putin’s demands for Ukraine to withdraw from Donetsk and Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.
However, Zelensky assured that “the important thing” is that Putin “He doesn’t care what happens to his own people and his own Army.” and that is, he stressed, the “new face of nazism”.
There are some “skeptics,” he said, but he insists: “Nazism has already arrived and now it has Putin’s face”.
Before Zelensky referred to this ceasefire proposal for the first time, the main spokesman for the Presidency of Ukraine, Mijailo Podoliakhas indicated that the content of it It is nothing more than Putin’s way of avoiding paying for his war crimes and continue with them “in new formats.”
“No new ‘peace proposals’ from Russia. The Putin entity has only expressed the ‘standard set of the aggressor’, already heard many times,” said Podoliak, for whom this proposal is “highly offensive to International Law”.
“There is no news, no real peace proposals, no desire to end the war, but there is a desire not to pay for this war and to continue it in new formats. “It’s all a complete farce,” she concluded.
Some 90 countries and international organizations are meeting this Saturday and Sunday in Switzerland at a summit around the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyconceived as a “first step” for peace, although it will not include Russia and nor, in principle, with China.
kyiv hopes to forge a global consensus that goes beyond its Western allies and also encompasses countries in the Global South, often courted by Moscow.
Russia has in advance downplayed all importance to the results of this conference that will take place in the exclusive Swiss resort Bürgenstock, after the G7 summit in neighboring Italy.
In an interview with the agency AFP In May, Zelensky stressed “three points” main ones for this meeting, those that generate the most consensus of a ten plan defended by kyiv and the West from 2022.
The first concerns free navigation in the Black Sea to ensure global food security by allowing exports of Ukrainian grains, a relevant issue for countries in the Global South.
The second is about nuclear and energy security in Ukrainewhere Russian bombing has destroyed civil infrastructure and where the risk of a major nuclear incident remains at the Zaporizhzhia power plant occupied by Moscow troops.
The third addresses the return of around 20,000 Ukrainian children deported to Russiaa fact for which the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin in 2023.
“If we leave the summit with these three stages and the majority of countries agree, that means that Russia will no longer block them,” confided the Ukrainian president.
