Volodymyr Zelenskyy: “Ukraine is not afraid of meetings and expects the same brave approach from the Russian side.”

Well, if I do not defend this, who will do it for us? I mean diplomatically.

We want to end this war as quick as possible. We don’t see now signals from the Russian side that they are ready for this, to end this war. That’s why we have to prepare for the winter.

Putin does not want peace talks at the moment, in any form.

They are slightly on Russia’s side. And by ‘slightly,’ I mean not direct weapons supplies, but a greater openness to them, a greater willingness to help them rather than us – and for a country as large as China, ‘slightly’ means a lot.