2023-05-14 05:01:00
On one of the balconies of the Monument to Vittorio Emanuele in the center of Rome, the President of Ukraine, Volodomir Zelensky, answered questions from a dozen journalists, after his meetings with Mattarella, Meloni and the Pope. “We all want peace,” Zelensky said, “but the peace plan must be Ukrainian. We are interested in the support of the Vatican and other countries, and we hope to receive proposals for peace.” And he added: “It was an honor to meet his Holiness, but he knows my position: the war is in Ukraine and the plan must be Ukrainian. But we are interested in involving the Vatican in our peace formula.”
The president explained that the Ukrainian peace proposal includes the return of more than 20,000 Ukrainian children who have been “kidnapped” by the Russians during the war and said he asked the Pope to put pressure on Russia on this issue. On the war, he declared that “Putin loses permanently” and that “peace is getting closer and closer” to Ukraine. “He kills, not only our people, but his own as well. I don’t think big companies can trust this person, if I can call him a person. Putin is no different from a Nazi dictator. You cannot mediate with Putin. He just kills. He does not speak “.
On the steps that Ukraine will follow, the president replied “I cannot say. We believe in victory and the important steps will be taken shortly. We want justice, not God’s forgiveness. If there is no justice there is no victory, there is no peace”. And he further explained: “If Ukraine falls, the next step (for Putin) will be to take Moldova and then other Baltic countries that are in NATO,” hinting that Putin will extend the war to Europe if European countries do not help Ukraine to stop it.
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