"We had a long conversation": Zelensky in detail told about his meeting with Putin (video)

According to the Ukrainian leader, at the 2019 meeting he spoke to the President of the Russian Federation that the Minsk agreements would not work. Politicians also discussed the exchange of prisoners and gas arbitration, which Ukraine won. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky revealed the details of his conversation with the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, which took place on December 9, 2019 in Paris. He told about it during a press conference within the Forum "Ukraine.

Year 2024" on February 25. "We had a long conversation in different tones. I told him that the Minsk agreements would not work, because the very topic of the removal of troops along the collision line does not work . . . ", - the President said. Zelensky emphasized that he cited specific figures to the Russian President. "I have shown him that we will take away for 20 years and therefore, we will be in a state of frozen conflict for 20 years. That's what we talked about," he said.

According to the President, the second topic of conversation with the Russian leader concerned the gas and the court that Ukraine won. "There was an emphasis that they would still transfer money," the politician recalls. Zelensky noted that the conversation also raised the subject of exchange. According to him, then 100 people were exchanged.

When asked by a journalist, whether he lifts the phone, if he was called by Putin, Zelensky replied that the President of the Russian Federation would not call him. "He does not want to finish this war. It is so," the Ukrainian leader said. We will remind, during the press conference, Volodymyr Zelenskyy also said that the initiative to negotiate concerning the end of the war can only go from Ukraine. He noted that other countries could not impose the conditions for negotiations.