“At the point where we are, we are not ready for a ceasefire”said the head of state as part of the Crimean Platform, a format that brings together the main states that support Ukraine and was created by Kyiv before the start of the war on February 24.

Furthermore, he pointed out that a reissue of the Minsk Protocol, signed between Ukraine, the Russian Federation and the self-proclaimed independent republics of Donets and Luganks. “We have already explained that there will be no Minsk 3, no Minsk 5, Minsk 7, etc. We will not play these matches,” he said.

Crimea

During the virtual exhibition on Crimea, Zelensky declared that the deoccupation of this peninsula would mean “a historic step against the war in Europe” since “It’s not just a territory, it’s not just a piece of the geopolitical game… For Ukraine, Crimea is part of our people, part of our society.”

According to the Ukrainian president, the “degradation” of Russia began with the capture of Crimea in 2014 and, although he thanked the support of “many people around the world”, he regretted that others were remained silent, “pretending not to realize what was going on.”

“And that, in my opinion, was one of the main reasons for everything that is happening now in Ukraine and in the world,” he said, without naming anyone in particular.

In this sense, he pointed out that the peninsula served as a key location for the offensive of the Russian forces, from where he said that some 750 missiles would have been launched against “hundreds of civilian targets”, reported the agency of Europa Press.

“Crimea was and is Ukrainian”Zelensky insisted and added that he “will be part of the European Union” in the future, once Kyiv completes a membership for which there is still no deadline.

Support for Ukraine

The Mountain peak Today’s virtual meeting, a successor to another held in August 2021, saw Ukraine secure the explicit support of some 50 world leaders for its demands.

“We condemn Russia. We will never recognize any attempt to change the status of any part of Ukraine,” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in his speech.who underlined that “no sham referendum will be recognized”.

Meanwhile, the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, thought that the Russian President, Vladimir Poutine, “He wants to do to all of Ukraine what he did to Crimea”, annexed by Moscow eight years ago after a plebiscite not recognized by Kyiv or by Westerners.

Johnson, like his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau, He promised to continue aid to Kyiv and the policy of sanctions against Moscow “until Russia ends the war and withdraws its troops”, AFP news agency reported.

In the same vein, the French President spoke, Emanuel Macron, who called for having “no weakness, no spirit of compromise” towards Russia and asked Moscow for a “cessation of hostilities” and to choose “diplomacy to rebuild peace”, in addition to the withdrawal of its troops “from the whole Ukrainian territory”.

In a joint statement, leaders attending the virtual meeting stressed that Russia’s annexation of Crimea was “illegal” and a violation of Ukrainian territorial integrity.

Accordingly, they demanded an end to the “temporary” occupation of the peninsula and demanded that the Kremlin fulfill its international obligations, while defending the maintenance of “pressure” on Moscow.