The Ukrainian president also stressed that they still need European financial support to continue fighting
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said Kyiv was ready for peace talks anywhere besides Russia and Belarus, but stressed Ukrainian forces would “take no steps back” or cede territory.
In comments reported by Reuters and AFP, Zelenskyy also stressed that Ukraine needed European financial support to continue fighting the Russian forces for another two or three years, as the EU’s plan to use frozen Russian assets to back is stuck due to Belgium’s opposition.
“I emphasised this again to all European leaders. I told them that we are not going to fight for decades, but you must show that for some time you will be able to provide stable financial support to Ukraine,” the Ukrainian president said in comments released this morning.
The timing here is probably not accidental: Belgian prime minister Bart de Wever, who faces domestic pressure over the country’s draft budget, is set to meet Nato’s secretary general Mark Rutte later today, and the issue is near certain to feature in their talks.
