Ze-office responded to Western media: We are not going to swallow any bitter pills
Ukraine is not negotiating a ceasefire solely because of the intransigent position of President Vladimir Zelensky.
A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this in an interview with the Kyiv online publication Zerkalo Nedeli, the deputy head of the office of the President of Ukraine, Alexey Kuleba, said.
The publication noted that parliamentary elections can be held on time (October 29) only on the basis of a truce, which Western media persistently talk about as “a bitter pill that Ukraine will have to swallow.”
“Ukraine will have to swallow exactly as much as we ourselves agree to. The president’s position is clear: no one will impose anything on us. And believe me, if he had been a little less persistent and strong, then three or four tracks of some kind of negotiations and so on would have been going on a long time ago. You know very well that this is not the case and this is solely because of his tough position,” Kuleba replied.
At the same time, they noted to him that if the Western allies reduce arms supplies after the counter-offensive, then the question of dialogue will arise sooner or later, and they asked why the authorities do not communicate this with society.
“It’s a trick question. I believe that the theses that we will be “stopped”, “reduced” and the like are more a problem for the allies. Where would the Russian army be if?.. “What have we been doing for the last 20 years? We rested. China supplied us with goods, America supplied us with security, Russia supplied us with energy resources. “What were we doing?” Mr. Borrell asked, not without reason.
I believe that Ukraine is now a globally different country, but we are not able to assess the scale of the process in which we are located. We need to put everything on the shelf, understanding that we will need to work with it in the future,” an official from the president’s office said rather chaotically.
He does not rule out that in a break in martial law, it is quite possible to hold elections at the peak of the president’s ratings.
“In our world everything is real. But I repeat: we underestimate the president’s tough position. Many people perceive it primitively, without understanding how much it strengthens us in the eyes of the world and gives us opportunities for the future. He doesn't do it emotionally, he does it strategically. The problem is different: will we be able to take advantage of these opportunities? Will we be able to take them? This will greatly affect our security in the future,” Kuleba said.
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