He assures him, “Vladimir Putin Bluffa” on the forehead. At the end of an exchange with its European partners and Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelensky estimated on Wednesday, August 13, that his Russian counterpart “does not want peace.”
“I told my counterparts and the US president, Putin doesn’t want peace, Russia wants to take care of us, she wants to occupy all Ukraine, we understood it well,” he insists before the press. “Putin will not fool anyone, what we need is pressure on Russia to get peace.”
These meetings took place in a context in which the Russian forces carried out their greatest progression in 24 hours on Tuesday in the Ukrainian territory for more than a year, according to the AFP analysis of the data completed by the American Institute for the Study of War.
The Russian troops, whose progress accelerates, said they had won more than 110 km2 additional on August 12 compared to the previous day, which had not happened since the end of May 2024. In recent weeks, they generally needed six days to progress so much.
“It’s Bluff”
However, Volodymyr Zelensky says Wednesday that Vladimir Putin “Bluffe”. “What he tries to do is get advances everywhere in the front line. Russia wants to suggest that you can occupy all Ukraine, but it’s Bluff,” he says.
The US president will meet with his Russian counterpart in Alaska on Friday. The Ukrainian president expects the “central theme” of this meeting to be “a high immediate fire” in Ukraine. He also asks for sanctions if the Russian president “does not accept the fire.”
Before Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech, Emmanuel Macron explained before the press that “the exchange with Donald Trump made it possible to illuminate his intentions” and that “the American will is to obtain a high fire.”
Source: BFM TV
