“I think it gave a lot to Putin,” he stated, “and I believe, if it was a trilateral meeting, we would have some result.”
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Zelenskyy stated Putin is ‘doing all the things he can to keep away from sanctions’
Throughout their summit in Alaska, the Russian chief is claimed to have informed Mr Trump he desires the jap Donetsk and Luhansk areas – and would surrender different Ukrainian territories held by his troops in alternate.
Since then, the US president has resumed threats of sanctions towards Russia and known as for NATO nations to cease shopping for Russian oil to finish the warfare.
Russian strikes on Ukraine have additionally continued, and in the previous few days there have been incursions into the airspaces of Poland and Romania, whereas a proposed summit between Mr Zelenskyy and Mr Putin has not materialised.
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After being requested whether or not Mr Putin is attempting to trick Mr Trump, Mr Zelenskyy agreed.
He added: “He’s doing everything he can to avoid sanctions, to prevent US and Trump from putting sanctions on him, and if you keep postponing applying sanctions any further, then the Russians will be better prepared.”
Mr Zelenskyy additionally informed Hakim that Mr Putin “wanted to escape from political isolation” with the Alaska summit, and believes “he should have paid more” for the assembly with the US president.
“He should have received a setback in this war and stop,” he stated. “But instead, he received de-isolation. He got the photos with President Trump.
“He obtained public dialogue, and I believe this opens the doorways for Putin into another summits and codecs, as a result of that is how it’s, and we see that, we observe this, and I do not assume he paid something for it.”
The Ukrainian president continued to say that Mr Putin “ought to pay, firstly, as a result of he began the warfare, and secondly, as a result of (he’s) looking for a approach out of isolation”.
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Zelenskyy provides Putin solely ‘understands power’ in a name for extra help
Mr Zelenskyy added that it’s “very important not to give Mr Putin this space, because otherwise he won’t feel compelled that he has to stop the war”.
“He’s waging the war and everyone is trying to stop him by arguing, by asking him – but instead force should be used,” he stated. “He understands force. That’s his language. That is the language he understands.
“He would not converse many languages, however that is the language of power he understands, similar to Russian, his mom tongue – and we ask very a lot European and US nations to try this, to indicate that.
“Yes, they take some steps, such as sanctions, for example, but more needs to be done, quicker.”
