Ukraine's president sat down with the BBC's Jeremy Bowen in Kyiv days before the four-year anniversary of the war.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky continues to send out a firm message of defiance.

When we met this weekend in the government headquarters in Kyiv, he said that far from losing, Ukraine would end the war victorious. He was firmly against paying the price for a ceasefire deal demanded by President Vladimir Putin, which is withdrawing from strategic ground that Russia has failed to capture despite sacrificing tens of thousands of soldiers.

Putin, Zelensky told me, has already started World War Three, and the only answer was intense military and economic pressure to force him to step back.

“I believe that Putin has already started it. The question is how much territory he will be able to seize and how to stop him… Russia wants to impose on the world a different way of life and change the lives people have chosen for themselves.”

  • alonsohmtz@feddit.ukEnglish
    349·
    24 hours ago

    I feel bad for the Ukrainians, but reality is starting to set in.

    Their kingdom and the allegiances it made was not enough to defend against Russia’s kingdom and the allegiances they made.

    • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldEnglish
      171·
      20 hours ago

      Seems to me they’re still standing firm. How much territory have they lost recently? Fighting for their lives, they’re still holding on, and they’re continuing to survive with the help from the US all but cut off.

      You may claim to feel bad for them, but it sure sounds like you’re like Trump - suggesting they give in to the terrorist Russians.

      But a quick peek at your posting history shows you love to vocally block people. So go ahead and block me and be done with it.

      • alonsohmtz@feddit.ukEnglish
        124·
        20 hours ago

        Sometimes the truth isn’t something we like.

        That doesn’t make it any less true.

          • alonsohmtz@feddit.ukEnglish
            110·
            18 hours ago

            Their kingdom and the allegiances it made was not enough to defend against Russia’s kingdom and the allegiances they made.

            If this wasn’t true, then the war would be over and Russia would have no gains.

            I get it though, “gung-ho” and all that. It’s okay to believe and peddle lies so long as they paint your side in a good image.

            The propaganda war is real and you aren’t above it.

            • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldEnglish
              71·
              16 hours ago

              If this wasn’t true, then the war would be over and Russia would have no gains.

              What fucking bullshit spin is this bullshit? Ukraine is fucking successfully defending itself against Russia, you fucking muppet. Russia, with supposedly the second best military in the world, can’t even fucking win a war in Ukraine, who is somewhere supposedly down in the list?

              You are absolutely laughable and pitiful.

    • GeneralVincent@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      15 hours ago

      You’re posting propaganda when your statement has no source and is not supported by evidence

      19.4% The percentage of Ukrainian land occupied by Russia, according to the Institute for the Study of War. Over the past year, Russia has gained just 0.79% of Ukraine’s territory in the grinding war of attrition, the Washington-based think tank said in calculations provided earlier this month to The Associated Press, underscoring the little progress Moscow’s forces have made despite huge costs in troops and armor.

      Source: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/4-years-into-russias-invasion-of-ukraine-a-look-at-the-war-by-the-numbers

      Their kingdom is still defending itself incredibly well against the larger nation after four years, with Russia taking extremely heavy loses with no clear sign of victory on either side. The recent fighting has gained barely any ground at all for Russia