Posted on 03/28/2022 7:43:56 PM PDT by delta7
Ukraine is prepared to discuss adopting a neutral status as part of a peace deal with Russia but such a pact would have to be guaranteed by third parties and put to a referendum, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in remarks aired on Sunday.
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The Ukrainian president also accused the West of cowardice, making an exasperated plea for fighter jets and tanks to help defend his country from Russia's invading troops.
Speaking after US President Joe Biden said in a lacerating speech that Russian President Vladimir Putin could not stay in power – words the White House immediately sought to downplay – Zelenskyy lashed out at the West's "ping-pong about who and how should hand over jets" and other weapons while Russian missile attacks kill and trap civilians.
Ukraine says that to defeat Russia, the West must provide fighter jets and not just missiles and other military equipment. A proposal to transfer Polish planes to Ukraine via the United States was scrapped amid NATO concerns about being drawn into direct fighting.
In his pointed remarks, Zelenskyy accused Western governments of being "afraid to prevent this tragedy. Afraid to simply make a decision."
Another top Ukrainian official, meanwhile, said Russia was trying to split the nation in two, like North and South Korea, while Ukrainian Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said Monday that Russia's war on Ukraine has so far cost the country $564.9 billion in terms of damage to infrastructure, lost economic growth and other factors.
In an online post, she said the fighting had damaged or destroyed 8,000 km (4,970 miles) of roads and 10 million square meters of housing.
Zelenskyy said Russia's invasion had caused the destruction of Russian-speaking cities in Ukraine, with damage worse than the Russian wars in Chechnya.
"Security guarantees and neutrality, non-nuclear status of our state. We are ready to go for it. This is the most important point," Zelenskyy said.
Zelenskyy said Ukraine refused to discuss certain other Russian demands, such as the demilitarization of the country.
Speaking more than a month after Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, Zelenskyy said no peace deal would be possible without a ceasefire and troop withdrawals.
He ruled out trying to recapture all Russian-held territory by force, saying it would lead to a third world war, and said he wanted to reach a "compromise" over the eastern Donbas region, held by Russian-backed forces since 2014.
Zelenskyy focused on the fate of the eastern port city of Mariupol, under siege for weeks. Once a city of 400,000 people, it has undergone prolonged Russian bombardment.
I've talked to the defenders of Mariupol today. I'm in constant contact with them. Their determination, heroism and firmness are astonishing," Zelenskyy said in a video address, referring to the besieged southern city that has suffered some of the war's greatest deprivations and horrors. "If only those who have been thinking for 31 days on how to hand over dozens of jets and tanks had 1% of their courage."
"All entries and exits from the city of Mariupol are blocked," Zelenskyy added. "The port is mined. A humanitarian catastrophe inside the city is unequivocal, because it is impossible to go there with food, medicine and water," he said.
"I don't even know who the Russian army has ever treated like this," he said, adding that, compared to Russian wars in Chechnya, the volume of destruction "cannot be compared."
Russia has denied targeting civilians in Ukraine. Russia and Ukraine have traded blame for a failure to open humanitarian corridors.
Zelenskyy pushed back against allegations from Moscow that Ukraine had curbed the rights of Russian speakers, saying it was Russia's invasion that wiped Russian-speaking cities "off the face of the earth."
Finally, Peace talks instead of war…..I am sure Senile Joe will get the US taxpayers to rebuild, and of course, 10 percent to Joe.
Poland, quite reasonably, doesn’t want to be a target.
NATO, quite reasonably, doesn’t want to formally start World War Three.
Is he accusing us of not doing our best to protect Hunter and big guy?
No jackass. We would like to avoid WWIII that would likely go nuclear. Especially over something as retarded as protecting the rights of western Uke Nazi militias to shell the Donbass.
The Ukrainian president also accused the West of cowardice
***And he is correct. We are pushing the Ukes into a nuke corner, wherein they build their own nuke weapons to ensure their own sovereignty. They counted on us in the Budapest Agreement and we betrayed them.
That sounds like what was agreed to years ago, NATO would not expand eastward and Ukraine would not keep nuclear weapons. That might be enough for the Russians, they already have Crimea, maybe Donbas could have home rule.
Can they get to the peace table now or will that not be good enough for Soros and Schwab?
F**k Zelenskyyyyy
The real problem is RUSSIA doesn’t want to ‘play ball!’ They don’t abide by the very rules they agreed to multiple times!
That was AGAIN tried in 2014: The Budapest Memorandium.
The memorandum bundled together a set of assurances that Ukraine ALREADY HELD from: the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) Final Act; United Nations Charter; and Non-Proliferation Treaty.
But, the Ukrainian government nevertheless found it valuable to have these assurances in a Ukraine-specific document called The Budapest Memorandium.
The FACT is PUTIN IS EVIL, LIES and cannot be trusted in any regards on anything!!! May Putin go to his final reward: SOON!
Warning rough to watch...
Ukrainian nationalists strip and sexually assault a Roma girl. They force her to paint her face green and smash her face with rocks, before setting fire to her hair. You will not see this on the ‘news.’
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what was agreed to years ago, NATO would not expand eastward
***Where is that agreement? I don’t think it exists.
Not sure if Putin won, but at least this kid has come to the reality that he was played by pig face bidet.
Its near planting time, and neither of those two countries can afford to miss.
Putin invaded Ukraine twice, violating that agreement. This second time he called it a “special military exercise”. Well, what’s sauce for the pootypoot goose should be sauce for the NATO gander. We just go in there and don’t call it an invasion, we call it a “special military exercise”.
Problem is, pootypoot knows that Biden is too much of a p^$$y to actually do this.
Do. Not. Care.
No jackass. We would like to avoid WWIII that would likely go nuclear. Especially over something as retarded as protecting the rights of western Uke Nazi militias to shell the Donbass.
Wasn’t it wonderful when that “White Supremacist” Trump supporter was killed in Denver and Denver was “denazified”? This may be a parlor game to you sitting in your comfortable arm chair tonight but real people die when such dehumanizing rhetoric is used.
Hope those liberated Russians enjoy those bombed out cities master Putin gave them.
When I see all the usual suspects coming out in favor of Ukraine, I have to wonder if we’re on the right side here.
“The Ukrainian president also accused the West of cowardice,”
Uhh dude, we have helped you a bunch. Intelligence sharing, weapons, huge pressure on Russia.
It’s not our responsibility to get knee deep in every war in the world.
Zelensky will have to deal with the nazi groups who will keep on causing havoc within the Ukraine.
The FACT is PUTIN IS EVIL,
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The fact is Zelensky and Vlad are both corrupted beyond belief , evil, support neither.
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