The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyhas mocked the peace plan proposed by the billionaire Elon Muskwhich includes the cession of territory to the Russians, and has invited him to visit the country so that “understand the ukrainian reality before ruling on it.”
During the DealBook forum, organized by the newspaper ‘The New York Times’, Zelensky invited the current owner of Twitter to visit Ukraine to see the damage done to the country by Russian forces.
And he pointed out that this visit could help the controversial billionaire to understand the situation in Ukraine since the invasion began, on February 24, before proposing a peace plan.
The comments made on Wednesday by Zelenski, through a video link in the aforementioned DealBook, were an implicit reproach to Musk, the businessman who last month proposed a peace plan for Ukraine that included the cession of territory by kyiv. .
Russia occupies since 2014 the Crimean peninsula and it has unilaterally annexed four Ukrainian regions: Kherson and Zaporizhia in the south, and Lungansk and Donetsk in the east.
However the Russian army does not control militarily totally none of these territories, in which heavy fighting is currently taking place.
“If you want to understand what Russia has done here, come to Ukraine and you will see it with your own eyes,” Zelensky said: “After that, you will tell us how to end this war, who started it and when we can end it,” the ruler said. ukrainian.
Nuclear weapons
The New York newspaper recalls that the company SpaceX, owned by Muskfinances the operation of Starlink Internet service in Ukrainewhere it has become a digital lifeline for soldiers and civilians amid Russian attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure.
Musk, who had threatened to remove these services from the internet, later backed down, though he acknowledged that the company was losing money from this activity.
Zelensky also said, speaking at the meeting, that he did not believe there was an immediate threat that Russian President Vladimir Putin would use nuclear weapons as the war entered a new phase of winter fighting.
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He specified that the risk of Putin using nuclear weapons was not his biggest fear, and that should not be the greatest fear of the West. “I don’t think he uses nuclear weapons,” Zelensky said, “this is my opinion,” the New York newspaper quoted.
Instead, Western democracies should be more concerned with Putin’s expansionist military ambitions, he said. If his army manages to conquer parts of Ukraine, he warned, other neighboring democracies could be next.