Zelenskyy: There should be a persistent habit in the world to take Ukraine into account

Olha Hlushchenko – Thursday, 26 May 2022, 00:52

The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has stated that "[w]e must do everything possible so that the world has a persistent habit of taking Ukraine into account."

Source: Presidential video address

Quote: "Yet in Davos, for example, Mr. Kissinger emerges from the deep past and says that a piece of Ukraine should be given to Russia. So that there is no alienation of Russia from Europe."

"...We must do everything possible for the world to acquire a persistent habit of taking Ukraine into account. So that the interests of Ukrainians are not shaded by the interests of those who are in a hurry for another meeting with a dictator.

That's why I always have a lot of international communication in my schedule: yesterday and today – Davos; tomorrow – the Parliament of Latvia; the day after tomorrow – Stanford and Indonesia; and after that, just as actively."

Details: According to Zelenskyy, on 24 February many people in the world did not believe that Ukraine would be able to withstand a full-scale war because they did not assess the situation.

"A lot of them just didn't want to take Ukraine into account. It was not a habit to take Ukraine into account. Although they had a habit of taking Russia into account. And even when there are no objective reasons for that," the president said.

"It is convenient for them. And it is really habitual. Often very profitable. To call one or another Russian politician 'Dostoyevsky's heroes', as if this excuses them. To talk about Russia's supposedly historic sphere of influence. And about the alleged balance in relations in Europe, which is supposedly impossible without Russia," he added.

According to Zelensky, "no matter what the Russian state does, there is someone who says: let's take its interests into account".

"This year in Davos it came out again. Despite the thousands of Russian missiles hitting Ukraine. Despite the tens of thousands of Ukrainians killed. Despite Bucha and Mariupol. Despite the ruined cities. And despite the 'filtration camps' built by the Russian state where people are killed, tortured, raped and humiliated as if on an assembly line. Russia has done all this in Europe," he stressed.

Ukrainska Pravda, updated