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Volodymyr Zelenskyy said for the first time that he is ready to step ascend as President of Ukraine if the move gets NATO membership or permanent peace for his country.
“If this brings peace to Ukraine, if you really need to leave my message, I am ready. I can exchange it for NATO [membership]Zelinski told reporters at a press conference in Kyiv on Sunday. “If these conditions exist [I will step down] Immediately. “
“I have been focusing on security today and not 20 years ago. Zelinski said before the third anniversary of the full invasion of Russia on Monday:” I will not have been in power for decades. ”
The amazing offer to step down, while it is unlikely to look at the prospects for faint NATO joining, is a sign of severe pressure on the Ukrainian leader, as the United States accelerated to spark a peace deal with Moscow.
The Trump administration provided many privileges to Russia, including approval to normalize relations after bilateral talks in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia last week, with NATO membership in Ukraine.
Trump Zelinski described last week as a “dictator” while Blame Kiev, instead of Moscow, to start the war.
Russia fired the biggest strike of a drone against Ukraine on Sunday, as it fired 267 aircraft on multiple targets throughout the country.
Ukrainian officials say Washington is also trying to give Zelenskyy to sign a deal that would give large sums of revenue from extracting Ukrainian metal deposits.
Last week, US officials made a plan to direct up to $ 500 billion in resource extraction revenues to a 100 percent fund from the United States. Trump described the plan as a payment for former US military assistance.
Zelenskyy pushed back against the Trams administration demands.
“I know we have $ 100 billion [of assistance from the US] But I will not acknowledge $ 500 billion, regardless of what anyone says.
Zelenskyy also refused to confirm by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant in For example For the financial times when the “partnership” of the minerals with the United States will enhance Ukraine’s security.
Zelenksyy “challenged a certain logic” in Washington that the presence of American companies would deter more Russian aggression, noting that many American companies had operations in Ukraine when Russia attacked for the first time in 2014.
“This does not provide 100 percent guarantee that the Russians will not return to places [US companies] I entered. “
Zelenskyy said that NATO membership in Ukraine is the final security guarantee against the Russian military aggression in the future. But the Trump administration poured cold water on the idea, with US Defense Secretary Beit Higseth at the Munich Security Conference at the end of last week, that “NATO membership in Ukraine is not a realistic result of settling negotiations.”
He also ruled out the deployment of American forces in Ukraine after the war with Russia, which Zelinski said on Sunday that he wanted to see as part of a deal on the rare and critical minerals that negotiate his management with the White House.
The Trump administration has argued that the deal would lead to an increase in post -war growth in the country, but Kiev has declined. Zelenskyy said on Sunday, as Washington now suggested it, he will be very expensive and will not provide sufficient security guarantees.
Zelinski said he was convinced of Trump, “he wants to end this war and will help us to do it,” but he was also concerned that the American president would just offer fire as “great success.”
“We want to ensure security for our people,” he said.
