“All of us are on the brink of a nuclear disaster due to the capture by Russian troops of the nuclear plant of Zaporizhzhia“. This was underlined by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in his speech to Prague summit.
“Russia has brought the war to our land, to the Ukrainian part of Europe. And only thanks to the fact that the Ukrainian people stopped the invasion of Russia, the latter still cannot carry the same war to other parts of Europe, especially the Baltic countries, Poland and Moldova,” she stressed . “The whole of Europe is in the conditions of a serious price crisis, when through the manipulation of the energy market Russia gains unprecedented pressure on the living standards of the absolute majority of Europeans”.
The Ukrainian president then highlighted the need to protect "our critical infrastructure", "especially after the sabotage that took place in the gas pipelines in the Baltic", he added, referring to the North part Stream, attacks, he warned, which are to be taken into account.
Zelensky to the EU: "Russia does not want peace"
The tension remains very high. “To stop the liberation of Ukraine, Russia started to manipulate the topic of negotiations and allegedly mentioned dialogue, which it refused, starting this war against Ukraine and against all of you, against all of Europe. So continued Zelensky insisting that the Russia doesn't want peace talks because “if he wanted to, he would have responded to dozens of our proposals and efforts. Russia just wants to save time. She wants to regroup. And she accumulates resources. To strike again. We have to stop him from doing that. Like everything else in Europe, security is not something you can get by giving up something or signing a treaty. Security is a task. The task of expelling the occupier from the territory occupied by him. The task of holding murderers and executioners to account. The task of restoring the validity of the fundamental standards and conventions approved by the international community for all states without exception".
Zelensky: "We must defend freedom and democracy"
At the same time, the Ukrainian president insisted on European unity. “We must be strong, until our common victory to preserve everything we value so much. We must never stop defend freedom and democracy so that our children and grandchildren can enjoy at least the same amount of rights and freedoms that we do. And we must now invest in our defence, in our security, in our cooperation as much as possible, so that anyone in the world who can even think of starting an anti-European path, is forever aware that the strength of European unity is unsurpassable", he concluded the Ukrainian president.
