Zelenskyy: Putin wants to revive Soviet Union, after Ukraine he will "devour" Belarus

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin dreams of reviving the Soviet Union, so he is now trying to destroy the Ukrainian identity, and then he will take over Belarus.

He made the remarks in an interview with the Korean media Chosun, according to Ukrainska Pravda.

"The restoration of the Soviet Union. This is his [Putin’s – ed.] life goal. This cannot be achieved diplomatically, so he tried all kinds of blackmail, using energy as a weapon, etc. Mostly unsuccessfully. Then he decided to become an outright aggressor. He killed and tortured thousands of civilians, seized a nuclear power plant and threatened a nuclear catastrophe...

He [Putin – ed.] has been avoiding even a telephone conversation with me for almost two years. There is only one reason. He has nothing to say. The truth is on our side, and he has nothing to say in the face of the truth.

Putin wants nothing else than to seize Ukraine by force, destroy Ukrainian identity, and destroy Ukrainianness through war. Putin's next target is Belarus. [Russia] is metallurgically devouring Belarus. It is obvious that today's Putin is a completely different person than the one we saw before. It would be difficult to talk to Putin before he withdraws all his troops from the territory of Ukraine," he said.

Zelenskyy noted that Ukraine wants to study Korea's experience rebuilding the country from ruins after the war and combine it with its own experience.

According to him, Ukraine and South Korea can cooperate in the field of security and defence industry, in the field of high technologies and cyberspace, as well as in post-war rehabilitation.