Zelenskyy says negotiations could end if Ukrainian fighters in Mariupol are killed by Russian forces, calls situation in city 'inhuman'
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday said that negotiations could end if Russian military forces kill Ukraine's remaining defenders in Mariupol,"The destruction of all our guys in Mariupol – what they are doing now – can put an end to any format of negotiations. I think it is their big mistake to say that they really want to end the war," he told Ukrainian media during an interview.
"The stronger we are, the better the outcome of these talks will be. The more Borodyanka-like cases appear, there will be no chance that negotiations will be held actually," he said,Zelenskyy last week said that the terror unleashed in Borodyanka was"much more horrific" than even the grisly deaths in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, where mass civilian killings were discovered after the departure of Russian forces.
He continued:"In many villages of the liberated districts of the Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Sumy regions, the occupiers did things that the locals had not seen even during the Nazi occupation 80 years ago. The occupiers will definitely bear responsibility for this." "I think we need to talk about it," he said of the status of the aforementioned regions."And find a model that may not give an answer to what to do with it today, but it will definitely allow everyone to become sober. ... When the fighting is over and the war is over, we can think of diplomacy.""They want to resolve issues diplomatically when there is a war. This is very difficult.
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