"I believe that Putin has already started it. The question is how much territory he will be able to seize and how to stop him... Russia wants to impose on the world a different way of life and change the lives people have chosen for themselves."
"I see this differently. I don't look at it simply as land. I see it as abandonment - weakening our positions, abandoning hundreds of thousands of our people who live there. That is how I see it."
"It would probably satisfy him for a while... he needs a pause... but once he recovers, our European partners say it could take three to five years. In my opinion, he could recover in no more than a couple of years."
Zelenskyy claims Putin has already started World War III, advocating for military and economic pressure to halt further aggression. He views territorial concessions as abandonment, risking societal division. Zelenskyy believes that yielding land would only temporarily satisfy Putin, who would likely resume hostilities after a brief pause. The ongoing conflict is framed as a struggle against Russia's attempt to impose a different way of life on Ukraine and the world. The situation remains precarious, with uncertainty about Putin's future actions.
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