Diplomacy does not mean surrender of Ukraine’s interests and sovereignty, - Zelenskyy
All parties interested in ending the war should understand that when Ukraine speaks of diplomacy, it is talking about a bloodless way to return justice to Ukraine, and diplomacy is not a surrender of the interests and sovereignty of our state.
According to Censor.NET,citing Ukrinform, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this during a meeting with the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar communities in Ankara.
"As president, I am the guarantor of the Constitution. We cannot recognise any of the territories temporarily occupied by Russia as Russian. They will be Ukrainian, and there can be no compromise. I really want us to have the opportunity to return the territories through diplomatic means, because I really want not to lose our people, because this is the most valuable thing in Ukraine," Zelenskyy said.
He noted that all parties interested in ending the war, including mediators and Russia, should understand that ‘when Ukraine talks about diplomacy, it is talking about a bloodless way to return justice to Ukraine.’
"Diplomacy does not mean surrendering the interests and sovereignty of our state," the President stressed.
He recalled that Russia had attacked Ukraine, and Ukrainians had no choice but to take up arms and defend their land.
"There was no diplomacy there. Russia attacked, and Ukrainians took up arms and began to defend their country without the help of any country in the world. No one helped Ukraine at that moment. Then, when everyone saw that Putin could not take over our country, that our people and our military would not go anywhere, and that the President of Ukraine would not run away, everyone realised that they had to help Ukraine. Only then help began - in different amounts, from different countries," Zelenskyy added.
