Negotiations with russian President vladimir putin make no sense because he is an "inadequate" person and will attack Ukraine again if he is not defeated, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with Italian media during a visit to Rome.
"Who should we talk to? He doesn't want anything. It's a joke for him. Now that he sees that he has become weaker, russia is looking for something to calm down all the states so that they do not impose sanctions and do not help Ukraine. He can take some diplomatic step, but after that, believe me, he will come to kill us again in a year. Everything is clear with him. He is an inadequate person," Zelensky said.
According to him, since 2019, he has been looking for talks with putin to end the war in Donbas, but the russian president behaved "like a princess" and "could not find a format in which to meet." Now Zelensky sees no point in talking to putin.
However, there is a way out of the situation, Zelensky assured. According to him, the Ukrainian army is preparing a counteroffensive, during which the russian army will be squeezed out of the occupied territories. As a result, putin's support in russian society will fall, and he will have internal problems in russia that he must solve.
"When we are on the administrative border of Crimea, his support will fall, and his inner circle, business, will demand that he find a way out, and they will have to find it," Zelensky emphasized.
At the same time, Ukraine will organize a summit on the peace formula and seek to end the conflict, the Ukrainian president emphasized.
At the beginning of russia's invasion of Ukraine, Zelensky called on the russian president to "sit down with him at the negotiating table." But after the discovery of the massacre in Bucha, he refused to hold any talks with russia.