West help to Ukraine is not for free: Zelensky
“The money allocated by Europe and other nations are spent only on humanitarian aid or weapons. Sometimes we receive weapons directly, but you have to understand that everything has its price,” he said. “Whenever the money that we get is mentioned – well, it all came at a cost, it’s not for free.”
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said that both Russia and the West should provide security guarantees to his country.
“Apart from the Russian Federation, the security guarantees should be provided by other leaders as well,” he said in an interview to foreign media on Saturday,TASS reports.
The Ukrainian president said NATO offered no protection to his country.
“What we need now is not words, but security guarantees … from countries and unions of countries that are capable of providing them,” he said. “We don’t want to wage any more wars.”
Zelensky went on to say that Russian-Ukrainian negotiations continue.
“Groups of Ukrainian and Russian negotiators are discussing some matters,” he said, adding that his country informed other states about the ongoing talks.
“We have no secrets, we are absolutely frank about this agenda. We informed certain leaders about the questions that are being discussed by the Russian and the Ukrainian sides,” Zelensky added.
