Zelenskyy: Putin either unhinged or had premeditated agreements on attacking Ukraine
Pravda Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggests that Russian leader Vladimir Putin may have launched a full-scale war against Ukraine after reaching agreements with other countries, but Zelenskyy himself believes that such an option would be a “complete betrayal [of Ukraine by its foreign partners]”
Source: Zelenskyy in an interview with The New York Times, the video of which was published by the President’s press service
Quote: “He (Putin – ed.) is an unhinged person, because a sane person cannot go to war against another state on a full scale. He is either insane or he knew that he would not be punished for this, which means that there could have been some sort of dialogue with other countries.
I don’t even want to consider this, because then it’s not a partnership, it’s a game behind our backs and a complete betrayal. So let’s think that he had no [premeditated] agreements, and he is just an unhinged person who decided that no one would defend Ukraine, and he could capture us and destroy us.”
Details: Zelenskyy complained that “everyone keeps the door slightly open in relations with Russia”, but not as open as they did after 2014.
“But many leaders have left it a little open. Thinking: ‘What will happen tomorrow? We have to somehow find a chance for tomorrow. What if Ukraine loses the war? We should not completely close the door on Russia,’” the President said.
He said that if Putin was going to use nuclear weapons, he would have used them in the first year of the full-scale war, when he failed to capture Ukraine.
“He did not use it because he may be unhinged, but he loves his life very much. Because he understands that the door will be completely closed if he uses nuclear weapons,” Zelenskyy said.
“And so he loves life, so he didn’t use nuclear weapons in the first year [of the full-scale war], so he continues his actions, and there are sanctions. [And now, Western] leaders are starting to think [how to avoid possible risks of escalation of war with Russia]. But what could be a bigger escalation than massacres in Ukraine?”, he added.
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