There is no one to talk to – Zelenskyy on the possibility of talks with Putin in Turkey.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected the possibility of holding talks with Vladimir Putin in Turkey.
When Zelenskiy was asked whether he would have sat down at the negotiating table if Putin had been waiting for him in Ankara, the president replied as follows: "We talked about this [negotiations – ed.] before the war, and I told him (Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan – ed.): ‘Put Putin at the negotiating table, we cannot risk a full-scale war.’ He failed to do so then. And not only he... Now he thinks he can.
Now we can't... He [Putin ] is not the same person; there is no one to talk to."
Zelenskyy added that he was grateful to Erdoğan, in particular, for the Black Sea Grain Initiative and shelter for the defenders of Azovstal steelworks. He also emphasized that Erdogan had been informed of his position regarding the negotiations.
Occupiers impose a three-day curfew in Chaplynka, Kherson Oblast – General Staff.
The Russians have imposed a round-the-clock curfew from 23 to 25 February, likely due to transferring military equipment from Crimea. Meanwhile, Russian military forces are being quartered in Nova Kakhovka.
In Chaplynka, Kherson Oblast, the occupiers imposed a round-the-clock curfew from 23 to 25 February this year. The reason may be the transfer of military equipment from the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea to strengthen the defense line.
Fifteen heartrending photos for a year of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
During the year since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine started, tens, even hundreds, of thousands of photos have been taken in Ukraine that take your breath away.
These photos were taken in combat action zones, during evacuations, or in newly liberated territories.
They illustrate the consequences of Russian terror all over Ukraine.
Bucha in early April 2022, when the Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated the entire Kyiv Oblast from the Russian occupiers.
Photo by Dmytro Larin
A maternity ward in Mariupol that was attacked by the Russians on 9 March 2022. A father hugs his dead son, who was killed in the attack.
Photo by Yevhen Malolietka
A rubbish dump where Russian rockets fired on Kharkiv is deposited. Early December 2022.
Photo by Kostiantyn Liberov and Vlada Liberova/Instagram
A photo was taken at the Azovstal Steelworks during the blockade of Mariupol. The photographer is Dmytro Kozatskyi, a soldier in the Azov Regiment.
Photo by Dmytro Kozatskyi
A child’s bloodstained toy at Kramatorsk railway station after the attack on 8 April 2022.
Photo by Roman Kulyk
A search and rescue worker carries a person who has been pulled out from under the debris of a residential building in Dnipro that was hit by a Russian missile on 14 January 2023.
Photo by Pavlo Petrov
Anastasiia Tykha, during the evacuation from Irpin, Kyiv Oblast, led a group of animals, many of them in wheelchairs.
Photo by Christopher Occhicone/Instagram
The village of Borodianka after the liberation of Kyiv Oblast in early April 2022.
Photo by Dmytro Larin
An elderly woman in a wheelchair was evacuated from Irpin on 7 March 2022.
Photo by Aris Messinis/Instagram
A resident was riding a bicycle in Siversk, Bakhmut district, Donetsk Oblast. The photo was taken in the summer 2022.
Photo by Dmytro Larin
They attacked Hostomel Airport at the beginning of April 2022 when the occupiers destroyed a command plane of Ukrainian aircraft – An-225 Mriia.
Photo by Dmytro Larin
The 93rd Brigade works on a trophy Giatsint self-propelled artillery unit on the Bakhmut front in autumn 2022.
Photo by Dmytro Larin
A Kyivite looks at a destroyed house in Obolon, Kyiv, with tears in her eyes as a Russian missile hit it on 14 March 2022.
Photo by Aris Messinis/Instagram
Burned Russian equipment on the street in Bucha, Kyiv Oblast. The photo was taken after the liberation of the territory at the beginning of April 2022.
Photo by Dmytro Larin
A teenager with a damaged house in the background in Donetsk Oblast, the end of May 2022.
Russia will spread lies about Transnistria and may attack another European country – Zelenskiy.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is convinced that Russia will continue spreading lies regarding Transnistria [an unrecognized breakaway state internationally recognized as a part of Moldova – ed.] and does not rule out that Putin may attack another European country.
"Unfortunately, this [Russia's attack on another country – ed.] is possible. And it may happen. I can explain why. President Putin has to be presented with gains and victories. There will be no advances on the battlefield in Ukraine and no massive comeback; at the very least, we will fight, and if there is a supply [of weapons], we will be stronger.
Therefore, he [Putin] will have to be presented with gains. And everyone understands that it may be where there is a weakness (and preferably in those states where Moscow had influenced in Soviet times), and also where there are specific problems, inevitable conflicts, and certain separate institutions. This is what is happening. And this is Moldova. You know the example of Moldova," - said Zelenskiy.