Zelensky insists war ‘not over’ until Ukraine reclaims Crimea

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he will not consider his country victorious in its 16-month war with Russia so long as Moscow holds Crimea.

“We cannot imagine Ukraine without Crimea. And while Crimea is under the Russian occupation, it means only one thing: War is not over yet,” Zelensky, 45, told CNN in an interview over the weekend.

When pressed on whether he thought there could be a scenario of “victory and peace” in which Crimea is not part of Ukraine, the onetime actor and comedian stated: “There will not be victory there.”

Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, after popular protests led to the ouster and exile of Ukraine’s pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych.

Prior to Russia’s annexation, which was condemned by the US and its allies, the strategic Black Sea peninsula had been part of Ukraine since 1954.

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[geneticsmatter]

Zelensky deserves to be made to dangle in Times Square

[commanderbell]

Zelenskyy and his family will be moving to United States soon in Martha Vineyard.

[joshuapaul]

Meanwhile Zelenskyy is under pressure to produce some tangible results by Vilnius summit deadline, so Ukrainian conscripts are going to be slaughtered in record numbers. After the latest debacle Zelenskyy supervisors told him not to use Challengers and Leopard 2A6s in the offensive. It was too embarrassing. Zelenskyy managed to waste hundreds of tanks (including cutting-edge German Leopard 2A6s) and hundreds of armored vehicles (including Bradley) along with thousands of hapless Ukrainian conscripts on the mine fields, hit by Russian artillery or anti-tank missiles without even getting to the first main line of Russian defense. Adding insult to injury Russians captured Leopard 2A6 and Bradley. Ukrainian army has always been poorly led and marred by political interference and pervasive corruption, but now when it lost almost all experienced soldiers every Zelenskyy operation turns into a wholesale slaughter of Ukrainian conscripts like in Bakhmut . Bakhmut was a slaughter which was entirely Zelenskyy folly as Stalingrad was entirely Hitler's folly. Zelenskyy just for media hype wasted on average 500 troops daily (total tally was at least 51 000 KIA) in Bakhmut meat grinder even when all escape routes came under Russian fire control and this debacle turned into a sheer slaughter of Ukrainian troops.

[geneticsmatter]

I’m much more concerned with the *_demographic war_* on our own home turf.

[mikeypiros]

ALL BS.
LONG LIVE MOTHER RUSSIA
ALWAYS..

[sns]

It's not over until Zelensky and his generals are multi millionaires

[FrankieSun-hvse]

Jews are having a hard time in the Middle East, and they can move to a new home soon

[eisenschnee]

Looks like the only wins on the Russian side are all of the bots allowed in the comments.

[JimmyjimmyJimmyjimmy-ihyd]

Zelensky was always ill equipped to handle world politics let alone steering a country through a war. He is a comedian and actor.

[miked]

Mr. Zelensky...will you also pay my home mortgage? All my tax dollar is going to fund your useless war!

[thDimension]

It's not over until the Fat Nuland sings.

[felixnuwahid]

Forever war then, Zelensky, @Russia is a nuclear power country. Compromise need to be made

[andersstook]

Any "grown up" opposition in the west willing to criticize his threats to bomb Zaporizjzjas nuclear plant?😱

[jamesmiller]

If America wanted it, we could have one this a year ago.