Zelensky: We should not be misled when Russia starts talking about peace

He said this in his address to the participants of the second PISM Strategic Ark conference, Ukrinform reports.

"We have no right to be misled when Russia starts actively talking about peace and diplomacy. Russia is concerned not about the end of bloodshed, but about the end of money and resources to continue it," Zelensky said.

According to him, Russia needs time for new missiles, a new plan, a new attack, rather than peace. "This is the formula of Russian politics. It has been unchanged for centuries," he noted.

According to Zelensky, the 21st century should be the last for this Russian policy, and the Ukrainian Peace Formula contains the mechanisms to realize this and security guarantees to ensure that this never happens again.

"So that May 18, 1944 does not happen again. The genocide of the Crimean Tatar people. The forced deportation and loss of their home for decades. All that modern Russia, calling itself the successors and followers of the totalitarian regime, repeated in Crimea in 2014. And it repeated this eight years later in Donbas, in Mariupol, in Kherson," he said.

According to him, unpunished evil always returns, and without an international tribunal and bringing all Russian war criminals to justice, it will return very soon.

Photo: Office of the President of Ukraine