The president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, has mocked the peace plan proposed by billionaire Elon Musk, which includes the cession of territory to the Russians, and has invited him to visit the country so that he “understands the reality before ruling on the matter”.
During the DealBook forum, organized by The New York Times, Zelenski invited the current owner of Twitter to visit Ukraine to see the damage caused to the country by the Russian forces.
And pointed out that this visit could help the controversial billionaire to understand the situation that Ukraine has been experiencing since the invasion began, last 24 of February, before proposing a peace plan.
The comments made on Wednesday by Zelenski, through a video link in the aforementioned DealBook, were an implicit reproach to Musk, the businessman who last month proposed a peace plan for Ukraine that included the cession of territory by Kiev.
Russia has occupied the Crimean peninsula since 2014 and has unilaterally annexed four Ukrainian regions: Kherson and Zaporizhia, in the south, and Lungansk and Donetsk, in the east.
However, the Russian Army does not fully control militarily any of these territories, in which heavy fighting is currently taking place.
“If you want to understand what Russia has done here, come to Ukraine and you will see it with your own eyes,” Zelensky said: “ After that, you will tell us how to end this war, who started it and when we can end it”, the Ukrainian ruler stated.
The New York newspaper recalls that the company SpaceX, owned by Musk, finances the operation of the Starlink internet service in Ukraine, where it has become a digital lifeline for soldiers and civilians amid Russian attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure.
Musk, who had threatened to withdraw these service ios from the internet, later retracted it, though he acknowledged that the company was losing money from this activity.
Zelensky also said, during his participation in the meeting, that he did not believe there was an immediate threat that Russian President Vladimir Putin would use nuclear weapons as war enters in a new phase of winter combat.
He specified that the risk of Putin using nuclear weapons was not his greatest fear, and that it should not be the West’s greatest fear. “I don’t think he uses nuclear weapons,” Zelensky said, “this is my opinion,” the New York newspaper quoted.
Instead, Western democracies should be more concerned about Putin’s expansionist military ambitions , He said. If his army manages to conquer parts of Ukraine, he warned, other neighboring democracies could be next.
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