"Their ideas relate to all Ukraine": Putin still wants to capture Kiev - Zelensky

According to the President, the signing of the Minsk agreements was a mistake. This option is still trying to offer. Until last year, Ukraine really wanted to go the way of dialogue, but it did not work. The head of the Russian state, Vladimir Putin and his entourage, still expect to occupy Kiev. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky stated this in an interview with the Air Force, published on February 23, on the eve of the anniversary of the full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation.

Zelensky believes that "the ideas, mission and hope" of the Russians concerns the territory of all Ukraine. In the Kremlin, they still expect that the state will lose its sovereignty and become a colony of Russia again. But for this they need to capture the capital. "I think everyone realized: if you can't occupy the capital, if you cannot occupy Kiev, you cannot occupy Ukraine," the President commented.

According to the President, it is unlikely that Russia will start a new offensive from the territory of Belarus. "I think he [Putin] is not ready. And it will be a big mistake for him and for Belarus. A historical mistake. Because they don't occupy us, because they are no longer as strong as they were, and even then they are not They were able to do it, "he said. According to the Ukrainian leader, if Belarusians enter this war, it will also be a loss of state independence for them.

At the same time, Zelensky has no doubt about the strength and stability of Ukrainians. Answering the question of what happens if Belarus is full of Russia and joins it on the battlefield, the President stressed that the defenders would continue to defend the country and win. "We will fight. We will fight, we will stand," says the leader of Ukraine. According to the President, the Russians are historically doomed to play because they have no values.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes that the signing of the Minsk agreements in February 2015 was a mistake. By February 24 last year, Kiev really wanted to go through peace talks. Management tried to find a way to deduce enthusiastic territories without weapons. "We sought dialogue, like the whole civilized world," the president says. However, even an attempt to freeze the conflict in its territory has not led to anything - fighting in Donetsk and Luhansk regions lasted all these years.

The truce operated a month or two, but no more. Today, some territorial compromises will only weaken Ukraine, the state leader emphasizes. "The question is not in the word" compromise " - what is it to be afraid? ??? There is no faith, " - the President explained. We will remind, the focus in his author's article wrote that after the invasion, all power in the country was concentrated in one hand - Vladimir Zelensky.