Ukraine, Zelensky: “Mariupol fall would end negotiations”

The elimination of the Ukrainian forces defending Mariupol would mean “the end of negotiations with Russia”. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said this according to reports from the Kyiv Independent on Twitter. “Russia wants Mariupol’s defenders to surrender but Ukraine does not trust Moscow, recalling the Battle of Ilovaisk in 2014 when Moscow’s allied separatists massacred unarmed Ukrainian soldiers, Zelensky remarked. Mariupol’s defenders fight one. against six and they need heavy weapons as soon as possible “, added the Ukrainian president, according to whom what the city is experiencing is” a humanitarian crisis “. ‘Read also’ A very difficult situation ‘which sees” the soldiers stranded, the wounded stranded ”, Zelensky told the Ukrainska Pravda news portal, adding that “however the boys are defending themselves”. Zelensky’s words they come after the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, quoted by the Russian news channel Rossiya 24, threatened to “eliminate” the Ukrainian fighters who will refuse to surrender to Mariupol.