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One thousand four hundred fifty-second day. Zelensky - at the Munich Security Conference: “Putin may consider himself a tsar, but he is a slave to this war”
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The President of Ukraine spoke at the Munich Security Conference
Vladimir Zelensky spoke at the Munich Security Conference on February 14. He again emphasized that the Russian authorities do not intend to end the war. If Russian President Vladimir Putin is now focused on Ukraine, Zelensky warned, then in the future the war could expand and directly threaten European countries.
“Putin may consider himself a tsar, but he is a slave to this war,” Zelensky said. —He cannot imagine life without power or after power. Normal things don't interest him. Putin consults more with Tsar Peter and Empress Catherine about territorial conquests than with any living person about real life. Can you imagine Putin without war? - said the President of Ukraine.
In order to stop Putin, real guarantees are needed “for both Ukraine and Europe,” he said. “These guarantees,” according to Zelensky, “will answer the main question: how long will there be no war again?”
Zelensky criticized Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is skeptical about the threat of a Russian attack on Europe: “Orban should stop thinking about how to grow a belly for himself. He must think about how to build up the army.”
Zelensky assured: unlike Russia, his country is making every possible effort to ensure that negotiations on a peaceful settlement lead to results. He noted that, in addition to the United States, Europe should also be involved in the negotiations. The Ukrainian president does not believe that Russia is striving for peace: otherwise, he is sure, the delegation at the upcoming negotiations in Geneva would not have been headed by “that historian” Vladimir Medinsky
“Putin wants to repeat Munich. Not Munich in 2007, when he was just talking about dividing Europe, but Munich in 1938, when the previous Putin began to divide Europe,” Zelensky said.
The President of Ukraine also spoke in Munich about the scale of Russian attacks and their consequences - and accompanied this part of his speech with infographics. “Broken streets, destroyed houses, schools that are built underground - and this is daily life in Ukraine,” he said.
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War through the eyes of Meduza readers
Nadya (Odessa) . What do I think about the war? I want to scream at the top of my lungs: A-STA-BUT-SEE!!!! Each of us has only one life, and the cemetery worms don’t care whether you died as a hero, defending some supposed homeland, or died like a complete drug addict. In the same way, Putin and Zelensky don’t care about us - we are consumable material for them. Their children do not sit without light in the cold for days.
Leave us alone with your fucking policies, guarantees, territories, language, saving Russian speakers and other crap that they sell to us, just to continue this war. We just want to live! But until people begin to value their own lives as the most important thing, we will be scammed and deceived. And we will suffer and mourn those killed for the amusement of politicians. They need the war, not us. People, understand this - and stop!