President Zelensky: Russia 'Cannot Have A Veto' On Ukraine's Future In NATO Or European Union

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During a press briefing on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Zelensky underscored the importance of preventing Russia from having a veto over Ukraine's future in NATO or the EU.

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00:01Thank you, Friedrich.

00:03Thank you, Germany, for inviting us.

00:06We're working today with the Chancellor in four formats.

00:10First, it's our seaside track.

00:13Thank you for all the points that we discussed.

00:16We're very grateful to Germany for its assistance

00:19and strengthening of our country, of our security,

00:24of air forces.

00:30Straight from the beginning of this war,

00:32we worked on the level of European leaders.

00:35Third track was the talk with the U.S. President,

00:39and then we will talk about future security

00:46and conditional belief format.

00:50I want to thank all the partners for supporting Ukraine.

00:53And we've spoke with President Trump today,

00:57Mark Ritz, President Macron,

01:01Emmanuel Macron, President France

01:03and head of government territory,

01:05Melanie, President Poland.

01:07The whole week, as of last Wednesday,

01:11we were communicating quite intensely

01:15among the European leaders between Europe and the U.S.

01:19between us and representatives of other parts of the world who want one thing – peace in Ukraine, peace in Europe.

01:28Today, the co-positions were discussed with the President of the US.

01:34Before that, we had a coordination to talk about five common points, which Friedrich mentioned.

01:44I want to ask a little bit of thank you for your leadership in this direction.

01:49This is the format of our negotiation. Everything about Ukraine will be discussed with Ukraine.

01:56We have to get prepared the three-sided format of concession that should be a ceasefire first,

02:02security guarantees, real security guarantees.

02:06And, by the way, President Trump expressed his support for that.

02:11Also, among those principles, Russia cannot have a veto as to European or NATO perspectives of Ukraine.

02:20And we have to combine the negotiations with the pressure against Russia.

02:25Sanctions should be strengthened if Russia will not go to ceasefire in Russia.

02:31It's very important for these things to work.

02:34Of course, we've discussed the battlefield today.

02:37I told President Trump and all European allies.

02:43Putin is bluffing. He's trying to push before the Alaska meeting.

02:49Putin is bluffing.

02:50Putin is bluffing, that sanctions is nothing and they don't work.

02:52In fact, sanctions are hitting Russia's more economy hard.

02:54It's true. Russia has a lot of weapons many times over than we have.

02:56In fact, sanctions are hitting Russia's more economy hard.

03:05It's true. Russia has a lot of weapons many times over than we have.

03:09But it's true that Russia has a lot of weapons three times more.

03:19But they are sustaining three times more.

03:20And as I said about this, that Putin doesn't want peace.

03:23He wants to occupy our country, and we all understand that Putin will not be able to escape.

03:30We need a further peace against the world. We need future and further pressure and European sanctions against Russia.

03:39And together, our union's partners can stop the war with issues.

03:46We hope that the central topic will be the crisis fire immediately.

03:55President Trump was mentioning it many times.

03:58He suggested that after the last meeting, we will have a contact, we're discussing all the results.

04:07If there will be results, we will decide our next gone steps.

04:14We will have the meeting of the coalition of the willing, and this is our way, that's why we work.

04:21Thank you, everyone who helps us.

04:24Thanks again, Friedrich. Glory to Ukraine.

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