Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has insisted that his country will not accept Russia’s ultimatums.
He kept saying that the peace talks meeting between the USA and Russia was held behind Ukraine’s back.
Zelensky spoke in Ankara after a meeting with Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, insisting that his country would not accept the results of talks on how to end the war with Russia that were held “behind Ukraine’s back”.
It feels like the US is now discussing the ultimatum that Putin set at the start of the full-scale war,” Zelensky told reporters.
“Once again, decisions about Ukraine are being made without Ukraine. I wonder why they believe Ukraine would accept all these ultimatums now if we refused them at the most difficult moment?”
Earlier reports have it that the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, had blamed the Ukrainian leader and Europe for allowing the war to linger for so long.
Trump slammed Zelensky over his repeated complaint about not being invited to the Riyadh meeting, saying he should not have started the war in the first place.
However, Zelensky, who is being backed by the European leaders, said he would seek the return of occupied eastern and southern towns and villages via diplomatic means, emphasising: “They will be Ukrainian. There can be no compromise.”
According to Reuters, Zelensky was billed to travel to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday but the trip has been postponed to avoid giving the US-Russia talks “legitimacy.”
