20 September 2024,   01:47
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We mustn’t give Putin a break - Volodymyr Zelensky

If Ukraine falls, what will happen in ten years? Just think about it. If [the Russians] reach Poland, what’s next? A Third World War?, Volodymyr Zelensky told Scott Pelley in a 60 Minutes interview.

“It’s a difficult situation. I will be completely honest with you. We have the initiative. This is a plus. We stopped the Russian offensive and we moved onto a counter-offensive. And despite that, it’s not very fast. It is important that we are moving forward every day and liberating territory.

We need to liberate our territory as much as possible and move forward, even if it’s less than [half a mile or] a hundred [yards] we must do it. We mustn’t give Putin a break”, - said the President of Ukraine.

He also commented on the drone strikes against Russia, which Ukraine doesn’t officially acknowledge.

“You do know that we use our partners’ weapons on the territory of Ukraine only. And this is true, but these are not punitive missions, such as they carry out killing civilians. Russia needs to know that wherever it is, whichever place they use for launching missiles to strike Ukraine, Ukraine has every moral right to attack those places. We are responding to them saying: “Your sky is not as well protected, as you think””.

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