Zelenskyy on Trump’s remark about Ukraine having "different outlines": I’m not ready for surprises of that kind
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he did not understand what exactly US President Donald Trump meant when he said Ukraine might have "slightly different outlines" after the war ends.
Zelenskyy said this in an interview with Denmark’s DR Nyheder, Censor.NET reports.
"Not ready for surprises"
Asked about Trump’s remarks, Zelenskyy said:
"I don’t know exactly what that means. I can only guess what he might be referring to. But I’m not ready for surprises of that kind."
Zelenskyy cautioned against assuming that the Russian dictator would give up further territorial ambitions if Russia gained control of all of Donbas:
"Putin talked about Donbas, but then he decided to occupy the capital. The talk about Donbas was just words, but what happened in Kyiv was real."
He said it would be a "huge mistake" to assume that the Russian dictator would stop after seizing Donbas.
Occupation and the front line
Zelenskyy stressed that freezing hostilities along the current front line would not mean that Ukraine was giving up its temporarily occupied territories:
"As long as the territories under Russian control are not officially recognized as Russian, they remain under Russian occupation."
- The territorial issue remains one of the most difficult in the talks. Russia continues to demand that Ukraine hand over Donbas. Ukraine still controls the Sloviansk–Kramatorsk urban area, which is strategically important to its defense.
