Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in an interview with journalist Dmitry Komarov, compared the conflict with Russia to a cake that needs to be cut into pieces. He said this in the documentary “Rik”. Behind the Scenes”, published April 29 YouTube.
“The conflict is like cake with the Russian Federation. We can’t eat it, you’ll tear your mouth apart, it’s a big state and huge in volume,” he said.
According to Zelensky, “trouble is hard to swallow, it has to be cut into pieces”: “And these are victories. One by one. Sometimes parallel, but most of them still sequential.”
This documentary also shows the office where Volodymyr Zelensky lived: his office, his room, his bed. The President of Ukraine said that at first they did not want to let his guards out. But now he sports – perfectly clean white sneakers are also in the frame. There are many gifts in the office. Zelensky also talked about the Oscar statuette that Sean Penn brought him.
On the day of the interview, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were ready to launch a counterattack even without US F-16 warplanes.
“There’s no time to delay any longer, so we’ll start before there are Western warriors,” Zelensky was quoted by his office’s Telegram channel.
The head of the country stressed that the Ukrainian army would be difficult without Western aviation and would suffer heavy losses. It was also learned that on April 29, Zelensky was confident that during the counterattack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine it would be possible to seize the Crimean peninsula. He stated this in an interview with the Finnish edition of Yle.
Zelenskiy confirmed that Ukraine was planning a counterattack, stating that he believed that Ukraine could push back the Russian forces and also recapture the Crimean peninsula.
After that, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia Vladimir Medvedev called for the complete defeat of the “Kiev regime” during the counteroffensive and the destruction of personnel and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The previous day, on April 28, Leonid Kuchma’s former adviser, Oleg Soskin, expressed the opinion that Vladimir Zelensky did not fulfill his duties.
“There is no trust in this government, no, don’t trust anyone, they can’t do anything. “The West cannot help Ukraine, an attack is not ready yet,” he said.
The expert advised the Ukrainians to leave the war zone as soon as possible. According to him, the situation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Artemivsk region (Ukrainian name is Bakhmut) is serious.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense claims the opposite: the head of the department, Oleksiy Reznik, has previously said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces is ready for a “global” counterattack. But so far the Ukrainian army has not completed all the training courses for operating Western equipment.
Parallel to this, negotiations are being discussed. Many countries are ready to contribute to the peaceful resolution of the conflict. China also presented its vision. Earlier, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a phone call. After that, the Ukrainian politician once again emphasized that by making concessions on land, a peace agreement on Ukraine could not be reached, and that the country should remain within the borders of 1991.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, later said that such a situation was not mentioned in the talks between Russia and China’s leaders. At the same time, he said that the Kremlin is “ready to welcome anything that can bring about an end to the conflict in Ukraine and indeed Russia achieves all its goals.”
“We are ready to welcome him. As for the reality of communication, this is a sovereign issue for each of these countries and is definitely a matter of bilateral dialogue,” the Kremlin spokesman said on April 26. At the same time, Russia has repeatedly stated that it is against Ukraine’s situation on the 1991 borders. expressed.