President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that those Russian citizens who today are afraid or do not want to rally against the war will have to pay for it with their poverty.
During a conversation with Vladimir Putin, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan passed a message to him from the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy regarding the latter's willingness to meet.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged all those Ukrainians in Mariupol, Volnovakha, and other cities who are able to stay, to stay and defend their cities.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that he is ready to talk to Vladimir Putin on equal terms about any issues that are of concern to the Russian government.
The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted that the Russian side raised questions during the negotiations to which they had already prepared their answers, and on which compromise is impossible.
Dmytro Kuleba, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, has accused Russian Foreign Minister Sergуy Lavrov of spreading misinformation about so-called state protection of a “torchlight procession of the Nazis” in Ukraine.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that the Russian invaders have not succeeded in reaching their goals on any of the strategic fronts of the Ukraine offensive. He said that they are doomed to lose.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged Russians to add the words “reparations” and “contributions” to their vocabulary because Russia will have to pay for restoring all of the infrastructure destroyed by its actions.
President Zelenskyy claimed that Putin was wrong to think that he could break Ukrainians or make them surrender, and compared the desire to destroy Ukraine with a disease.
In an interview with foreign journalists, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that in case of Ukraine's fall, Russian troops would be at NATO border and would engage in provocations there.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy talked to the President of the United States Joe Biden about US leadership on anti-Russian sanctions and defence aid for Ukraine.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed General Mykola Zhernov as a Head of the Kyiv Military Defence Administration for the professional defence of the city.