“Life in the Russian Federation is a computer game. People need to return to reality "

Vladimir Zelensky held a large press conference in the Kiev metro. Here is a retelling of its main points

This is an approximate retelling of the answers of Vladimir Zelensky at a press conference in Kyiv. Its speech is not verbatim, most of the statements are edited. For convenience, we combined statements into thematic blocks that sounded at different points in the press conference.

About missile shelling of Odessa

These are our Easter days. Seven missiles flew to Odessa today, we shot down two. A rocket hit a multi -storey building. Eight people died, 18 or 20 wounded. The child was killed by a three -month. The war began when this child was a month. Scatter scum. What else to call them? There are no other words. And this is on Easter days! What they talk about, what values, what is the Russian world, the Christian world? Middle Ages. Seven missiles on their beloved Odessa, “Odessa Mam”, where they loved to come so much.

About the war and its prospects

This war cannot be compared with a single war in the 21st century or in the 1990s. And there was no such destruction in any of the wars that Russia waged in the territory of other independent states. There has never been such a amount of use of heavy equipment and such military rudeness - torture, violence, and violence. And God forbid, so that there is no in the future. Ukraine has fallen to stop this - unfortunately, at the cost of the lives of Ukrainians. And your countries should help more. They will finish with us - they will take you.

My position as the president: everything that they, God forbid, will occupy, we will return. And this will be a question not 10-20 years. As soon as we have the necessary weapons, we will return what is occupied.

I hope that we can unlock the captured cities. But now we are not ready to do this. And the guys who protect Azovstal in Mariupol, their commanders, understand this.

It is impossible to defeat Ukraine with such inhumanity. What will they do with us? What were they able to do in the Kyiv region? Everyone hate them. The Nazis once occupied Europe. What did they achieve? Did people love them? No. They became richer? No, although they plundered the whole of Europe. They reached one thing: that all subsequent generations of the Germans who are not involved in crimes feel their historical guilt.

I do not understand why Russia needs a corridor to Transnistria . They took the Transnistria, they took Abkhazia, took Donbass. And what is there - Hong Kong? Dubai? What is the civilization? Who is happy there?

About the International Tribunal

I believe that everyone who gave orders for the destruction of people and children will appear in front of the tribunal. This can take years, but we will wait. And if they do not wait like me, then our children will wait. It doesn’t matter what this tribunal will be called. The main thing is what number of people will be given a large number of years behind bars.

About Ukraine and Ukrainians

I think most Ukrainians are ready to live in the state [similar to Israel in terms of defense]. We have no other choice. We are already such a state. This does not mean that we will fight - we will have the most powerful and experimental army.

Previously, we wished for a long life and health to grandparents. I did not think that a long life and health can be desired for children. I wish everyone to protect my children as much as possible. And I share the pain of everyone who lost children.

I think Ukraine has already done everything [to win the war]. We are united, and most importantly, that this is preserved before the end of the war and after the war. The word "power" does not cause a gag reflex in society. And I am proud of it. Association is our main weapon. The unification of the military, the National Guard, border guards, authorities of different levels. The unification of the media resource, the media today is the second power. And in Europe they tell me that they have never been so united.

On the visits of foreign leaders to Kyiv and Moscow

We are not a country for tragic selfies. We have a war. Come, but come with the help that we ask you. We do not ask anyone for what they do not have. We say to Germany: you have something that you do not need now, but we need, because we have a war.

I consider it a mistake to go first to Russia, then to Ukraine [as UN Secretary General Antoniu Guterres]. For what? To give us signals from Russia? What to look at there? There are no corpses on Kutuzovsky Prospekt. It seems to me that it would be logical to come to Ukraine first, look, and then go to Russia.

If we are talking about help, not about political tourism.

About negotiations with Russia

I play for negotiations with Vladimir Putin, because I believe that the one who started it can end the war. I want to end the war. There is a diplomatic path and there is a military path. Any healthy person will choose a diplomatic path, because it can save the lives of thousands, or even millions of people. The leader has no right to abandon the diplomatic path.

If our people in Mariupol are destroyed, if the pseudo -referendum in pseudo -republics is proclaimed, Ukraine will come out of negotiations. This will mean that all these meetings of the negotiators are a fiction and just a theater with very bad actors.

I will have questions for Putin exclusively like the President of Ukraine. These are issues of territorial integrity. How our Ukrainian Donbass will live further, our Crimea. The conversation would be objective, hardly emotional, although you see me - everything can be.

About Russia

From the very beginning, our independence was important only for us - and for the civilized world. We were not respected in Russia at the level of power, and the large percentage of society does not consider us an independent state, do not believe that we have the right to independence, which means to life.

In books on history, a new word will appear - “Rashism”. The word is new, and the content is the same as 80 years ago [during the Second World War]. For these 80 years, there were no such barbarians on our continent. In schools, young children will get up and answer teachers about Rashism and about who won the struggle for freedom against this terrible concept.

At first, Russia reacted positively to the Communist after negotiations in Turkey, but then they heard a high level of criticism inside the country. It turned out that the power there was so rushed to people brains that she herself did not expect what she had done. I think they themselves were surprised by the level of hatred of Ukraine that they created.

Life in the Russian Federation is a computer game, it is a virtual reality. People who want to know what is happening, they need to get out of it, remove these 3D oches, return to reality, to the beautiful civilized world. It is not necessary to be a leader in the field of nuclear weapons - you can be a leader among countries by the number of ITSHRIKS. You can find a cure for cancer. They have where to spend this money and this potential. After all, there are talented people.

There are not so many people who protest in Russia, unfortunately. But they contribute to the fact that we will once break this information wall. We see their steps. Their words are important - after all, the words are most strongly, therefore, the authorities are afraid of their power. I can only wish them health, because I can imagine what they do with them behind bars. They contributed to the salvation of Russia.