‘I don’t want historic s**t’: Zelensky tears into Putin over Ukraine peace talks | EUROtoday

Volodymyr Zelensky has torn into Vladimir Putin after the newest spherical of negotiations in Geneva failed to attain a breakthrough.

The more and more annoyed Ukrainian president lashed out on the Russia chief in a publish on X and an interview with British journalist Piers Morgan.

“I don’t need historical shit to end this war and move to diplomacy. Because it’s just a delay tactic. I read no less history books than Putin,” the Ukrainian president mentioned in a livid publish on X.

The remarks got here hours after hopes of a Ukraine peace deal seemed additional than ever Wednesday, when vital talks with Moscow and Washington led to lower than two hours.

Kyiv has repeatedly criticised Moscow’s peace delegation for giving long-winded lectures on historical past. The Russian delegation in Geneva was led by ultraconservative historian and presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, who led the Geneva talks.

Putin was additionally reported to have lectured Donald Trump on figures from medieval and early trendy historical past throughout their talks in Alaska final August.

Speaking to Piers Morgan, he mentioned he doesn’t have “anything personal” towards the Russian president. “No emotions. I understand how to really try to finish this war. I’m not sure that he will hear my arguments,” he mentioned.

“It’s not even interesting for me why he began this war. I don’t need to waste time on historic issues – the reasons why he began all this, about Peter the First and so on. I don’t need it, because to end this war and move to a diplomatic path, I don’t need all this historical s**t.”

The Ukrainian president mentioned that he would keep away from the prolonged historic debates raised by Putin if he have been ever to satisfy him head to head.

The “only thing” he desires to discuss with Putin is the truth that Kyiv and Moscow “need to resolve [the war] in the most successful way”, he mentioned within the X publish.

Zelensky added: “I know more about his country than he knows about Ukraine. Simply because I have been to Russia – to many cities. And I knew a lot of people there.

“He has never been to Ukraine this many times. He was only in big cities. I went to small cities. From the northern part to the southern part. Everywhere. I know their mentality.”

After Wednesday’s transient talks ended, Zelensky mentioned the third spherical of direct conferences had been “difficult” and accused Russia of intentionally stalling as the problem of territory stays a significant impediment.

“We can see that progress has been made, but, for now, positions differ because the negotiations were difficult,” he mentioned, later including that the talks have been “substantive” however that “sensitive political matters” had not been addressed correctly.

Medinsky additionally agreed talks had been tough earlier than inviting the Ukrainian facet for closed-door discussions with out American mediation.

Zelensky informed Morgan, talking of Putin, that he “can’t trust the person who has killed so many people in Ukraine and who began a full-scale invasion against my nation”.

“But I see now that only at the level of leaders can we try to end this war. At the level of three leaders, we can really try to solve the territorial issues, which are very sensitive and painful and difficult,” he added.