In an interview with ITV News, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that without security guarantees, Ukraine risks being stuck in a "frozen conflict" with Russia, allowing Putin to return and escalate his aggression.
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00:00A frozen conflict will lead to Putin coming back again with his aggression.
00:05Who will then be receiving prizes?
00:07Who will then make history as a winner?
00:10No one.
00:11And that will be a loss to absolutely everyone.
00:14And it's very important for us as well as for Trump.
00:17He needs not to just finish the war.
00:20He needs to make sure that Putin has no chance of coming back with a war against us.
00:26I believe this is the most important part, and everyone must admit that.
00:30Then it will be a victory.
00:36We cannot stand against the United States of America.
00:40This is not beneficial for us as for a country that is at war.
00:44And this is not beneficial for President Trump, who is a president of a strong America.
00:50And Putin's victory is not beneficial for him.
00:53If there is a confrontation, God forbid, between Ukrainian stand and American stand,
00:59I don't even want to think about it, then Putin is the only one who wins from it.
01:05Putin's victory is the loss of the Western world, both Europe and the United States.
01:11And he will never stop.
01:12He will never stop.
01:15However long he lives, he will be living in the Kremlin.
01:18However long he lives, he will be taking lives away.
01:22He will carry on fighting the war.
01:31A simple let's just have a ceasefire with no security guarantees or anything is going
01:37to be a loss for everyone and you will see it.
01:41And this is not about me standing against it or someone else standing against it.
01:47It's about Ukrainian people.
01:49And I can be against and stand against anyone, but you can't stand against your own people
01:55because they elected you.
01:58And that is their expression of will.
02:00And I am the leader of that expression of will.
02:04And I believe that is the point.
02:06All of us Ukrainians in Ukraine know that over these past centuries, Russia had always
02:13been occupying us or wanted to, had been destroying our identity.