Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected US president-elect Donald Trump’s scheme for a speedy extremity to nan warfare successful Ukraine.
Trump has many times claimed he will beryllium capable to work together a bid woody pinch Russia wrong 24 hours of re-entering nan White House.
That has led to fears that he will request Ukraine springiness up territory already seized by Russia successful speech for an extremity to nan bombing.
Speaking astatine a gathering of nan European Political Community successful Hungary, Ukrainian president Zelenskyy poured acold h2o connected that suggestion.
“I judge that President Trump really wants a speedy decision” Zelenskyy said. “He wants that. It doesn’t mean that it will hap this way.”
He added: “We each want to extremity this war, but a adjacent ending. If it is very fast, it’s going to beryllium a nonaccomplishment for Ukraine.”
After Hungarian president Viktor Orban - a keen state of Donald Trump - called for a accelerated ceasefire successful nan war, Zelenskyy said: “I heard that it’s amended to instrumentality a ceasefire and then, ‘we’ll see’.
“[A] ceasefire was tried backmost successful 2014. We tried to scope this ceasefire and we mislaid Crimea and past we had nan full-scale invasion.”
Meanwhile, Zelenskyy besides called for “a much decisive consequence from occidental countries” to North Korea’s determination to nonstop troops to conflict alongside nan Russian service successful Ukraine.
And he erstwhile again repeated his entreaty for Ukraine to beryllium capable to usage UK-made long-range missiles to onslaught subject targets successful Russia.
During nan gathering pinch @SecGenNATO Mark Rutte, I provided an update connected nan battlefield situation, specifically highlighting nan engagement of North Korean troops successful Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. A much decisive consequence from Western countries to North Korea’s caller domiciled in…
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) November 7, 2024