The president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, has warned this Sunday of the “possibility” of an occupation of other European territories by Moscow, ensuring that his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, “will declare war on NATO.”
Zelenski has suggested during an interview granted to the US NBC News chain that his Russian couple would be waiting for “a weakening” of the Atlantic Alliance, which could occur if “the United States thinks of removing its army from Europe”, to start occupying parts of the continent.
“I don’t know if they (the Russians) will want 30 percent of Europe, 50 percent, I don’t know. Nobody knows it. But they will have that possibility (…) knowing that he failed to take care, we don’t know where he will go .
Zelenski has also assured that, for this, the Russian army is already training “a large number of soldiers in Belarus.”
“But Europe will not respond, because it does not have (army), it will begin to defend itself. Each country defends itself,” he reiterated, highlighting the same idea he proposed on Saturday at the Munich Security Conference, where he defended that “he has” The time to create the Armed Forces of Europe. ”
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The president has thanked the support of his American counterpart, but has assured that there is “no world leader who really can make a deal with Putin without us.”
In allusion to the doubts generated in recent days about the US position in this conflict, Zelenski has said that “I trust Trump” and “I hope that Ukraine is among (its) priorities, not Russia.”
“We are not as great as Russia, but I think strategically, Ukraine is more important for the United States, because we really are partners, allies and share common values,” he added.