Zelensky told BBC reporters that Ukrainians hate Russians
The prospect of NATO membership is the “most important support” for Ukraine from the West and a “serious signal” to Moscow.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky stated this in an interview with the BBC, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“To be honest, today we have already become NATO partners with expanded capabilities. We are going to NATO. NATO means security in our region, we understand that. Yes, we have a powerful army, we have an army of 200 thousand, we are updating our equipment, but this is not enough. And the only chance, I think so, I tell this to both the United States and the countries of the European Union, I tell everyone - if you do not want to lose Ukraine, you must support it. And membership in NATO is a very important signal to the Russian Federation and this is the most important support,” Zelensky said.
However, the journalist reminded him of the phrase of one of the European officials that Kiev’s full membership in NATO and even the EU is a “fantasy,” to which the Ukrainian president stated that before the “war between Russia and Ukraine” was a fantasy, and now all Ukrainians supposedly They hate Russians so much that they don’t even want to communicate with their relatives from the Russian Federation.
“Nobody believed it, we had families that consisted of people from Russia, people from Ukraine, we lived for many years in the Soviet Union, lived side by side, and the countries really respected each other.
And now we have a war, now we have hatred, now Ukrainians do not want to communicate with Russians. Therefore, NATO, if someone says that this is fantasy, then we’ll see,” Zelensky persists.
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