Zelensky: "If the strong do not stop Putin, it means that they share responsibility with him"

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has responded to Trump’s statement that Putin is preparing a “response” to Ukraine’s Operation Spider Web.

“Many have spoken with Russia at various levels. No conversation has led not only to a reliable peace, but also to an end to the war. Unfortunately, Putin feels impunity, and even after all the terrible Russian strikes, he is allegedly preparing some “responses.”

This means that with each new strike, with each new delay in diplomacy, Russia is showing the middle finger to the whole world. To all those who do not want to increase pressure on Russia. Although it is Russia that should strive for peace. It is there, in Moscow, that they should feel that war has its price - a high price, and the highest - for the aggressor,” Zelensky wrote.

He added that when Putin does not feel strength and pressure, but weakness, he always commits new crimes. "He considers such an attitude a tacit permission for new atrocities, new strikes, new murders. And if the strong do not stop Putin, it means that they share responsibility with him. And if they want to, but cannot stop him, Putin will no longer consider them strong," Zelensky said.

Recall that after a phone call with Putin, Trump noted that he had a "good conversation" with Putin, but that it would not lead to immediate peace. According to him, Putin "very firmly said that he would have to respond to the recent attack on the airports."