Do Ukrainians Feel Forced Into a Bad Deal?

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00:00And does it feel to some people in Ukraine like the country is being forced into a deal

00:05that perhaps isn't the best deal that could be achieved?

00:09The mood of the Ukrainian people, of course, is different.

00:11And you can come across different evaluations of what is happening.

00:16Some people feel even betrayed, but some people feel optimistic.

00:20The general stance of our government and our president is that we continue to work with the American side.

00:28We count on their support.

00:29We see that they understand that there are red lines that should not be crossed.

00:35And this concerns, of course, issues such as the territorial concessions to which Ukraine can never agree.

00:41These concerns, issues such as the size of the Ukrainian military, which, again, is something that is our sovereign right.

00:50And, you know, any other nation in the world has the sovereign right to self-defense.

00:54And so having an army of the size that we require facing the threat that we face is an understandable red line.

01:01And there are other issues, like, for example, the war crimes that have been committed, you know,

01:06hundreds of thousands of war crimes that have been committed by Russian Federation.

01:10I mean, of course, we will never be able to just forget about them because, you know, these war crimes are heinous.

01:17They happen regularly.

01:18And sooner or later, Russia will have to be brought to account for everything they have done.