‘We’re nonetheless ready for you’: Zelenskyy asks Vance to rethink visiting Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelenskyy as soon as once more invited US vice chairman JD Vance to go to Ukraine throughout a latest cellphone name – however he’s nonetheless ready for a response.
In an interview with Time magazine (see our 16.16 put up for extra), the Ukrainian president mentioned he had instructed that Vance rethink his resolution to not go to Ukraine throughout the battle.
“We’re nonetheless ready for you,” Zelenskyy instructed Vance, however the US official didn’t reply.
In the course of the interview, Zelenskyy additionally mentioned he hoped Donald Trump would realise that Vladimir Putin was “weaker than he appears” and “can’t be trusted”.
He mentioned that whereas he didn’t consider in apocalyptic situations, in one in all his latest cellphone calls with Trump, he tried to color an image of a state of affairs through which the ceasefire proves weak to infinite Russian violations.
Describing such a scene, he mentioned it all of the cities and cities in Ukraine that sit alongside the frontline would turn into like a “thousand Berlins” throughout the Chilly Struggle.
He mentioned they might be “useless zones” on the map of Europe.
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What did Vance say to Zelenskyy within the Oval Workplace?
Throughout tense talks within the Oval Workplace this month, Vance mentioned Ukraine was counting on conscription.
In response to the conscription remark, Zelenskyy requested Vance: “Have you ever ever been to Ukraine?”
The reply, as Zelenskyy knew, was no.
Ignoring the suggestion that he ought to go to, Vance countered: “I’ve truly watched and seen the tales, and I do know that what occurs is you convey folks, you convey them on a propaganda tour, Mr President.”
