Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine said Russia was already manipulating and distorting the truce covering the Black Sea and energy strikes.
It will be recalled that the US announced on Tuesday that Russia and
Ukraine have agreed to eliminate the use of force in the Black Sea after
parallel talks in Saudi Arabia.
Zelenskyy said he would ask US President Donald Trump to supply weapons
and sanction Russia if Moscow broke the deals.
The United States had earlier said that it had made separate agreements
with Kyiv and Moscow to ensure safe navigation in the Black Sea and to
implement a ban on attacks on energy facilities in the two countries.
Speaking to newsmen at a news conference in Kyiv, Zelenskyy said he did
not trust Russia to honour the arrangements.
The Ukrainian leader, speaking later in his nightly video address, said
Russia was already deceiving the world.
“The U.S. side considers that our agreements come into force after their
announcement by the US side.
“Unfortunately, even now, even today, on the very day of negotiations,
we see how the Russians have already begun to manipulate.
“They are already trying to distort agreements and, in fact, deceive
both our intermediaries and the entire world,” Zelenskyy said.
According to him, the Kremlin was lying when it said accords on Black
Sea shipping were linked to sanctions imposed on Moscow.
He added that Ukraine would do everything to implement the accords, but
Russia had to understand that it would receive a strong response if it launched
strikes.
Tmthe accords are the first aimed at halting energy strikes since Russia
launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022, triggering Europe’s biggest
conflict since World War Two.
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