“I am ready to negotiate with him – as I have been for two years. I don’t think we can end this war without negotiations,” Zelensky said. “But if these efforts fail, it would mean this is World War III.”
Russia and Kiev are already holding talks that should lead to an end to military violence. According to Turkey, which is trying to mediate, Moscow and Kiev are even close to an agreement.
According to a spokesman for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, negotiations are underway on six points: Ukraine’s neutrality, its disarmament and security guarantees, the “denazification” sought by Russia, the elimination of dams against the use of the Russian language in Ukraine, the statute of the separatist Donbass region and the statute of Russia’s 2014 annexed Crimean peninsula.
Either way, Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity is non-negotiable, Zelensky told CNN. He demands security guarantees for his country from Western leaders.
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