Last minute of the war in Ukraine today, live | Zelensky: “Before we talked about peace, now we talk about victory” – EL PAÍS

Zelensky promises the reconquest of Crimea: “It all started there and everything will end there” The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, promised on Tuesday that his country will regain control of the Crimean peninsula, occupied and annexed by Russia in 2014, an action that , according to him, will help restore “world law and order.” “Everything started with Crimea and everything will end with Crimea,” he said in his opening speech at the Platform for Crimea, a forum that seeks the restoration of Ukraine’s territorial integrity. “I believe 100% that in order to overcome terror, to regain security in our region, in Europe, throughout the world, victory is necessary in the fight against Russian aggression.”40 Heads of State and Government, as well as international organizations, are, according to the organization, represented on the platform. Almost all of them have participated ‘online’, with the exception of the Polish president, Andrzej Duda, visiting Kiev. The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has affirmed in her videoconference speech before the forum that the EU ” will recognize the “illegal” annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol by Russia. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has indicated that the international community “cannot (…) show any weakness, any spirit of concession, because it is about our freedom for all, and peace in all regions of the world”. The French president has also indicated that Europe is willing to sustain the “combat” in Ukraine “as long as it takes.” Russia shows no sign of abandoning Crimea, home to its Black Sea fleet and a popular tourist destination. Since the beginning of the invasion, it has used the peninsula as a platform to launch bombing raids (750, according to Ukraine) against Ukrainian targets. For Zelensky, Moscow has turned Crimea into “an environmental disaster and a springboard for aggression” (Reuters / AFP)