Ukrainian president says he wants to live peacefully in his country

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he wants to be able to live peacefully in Ukraine and walk the streets after the war without being hated by his people.

In a Wall Street Journal podcast, when asked how he was coping with stress, Zelenskyy expressed that he did not know whether he was really coping with it, Caliber.Az reports.

“I don't know. I'm not sure that I really deal with it. No, I mean, what we do, we try to do our job in the way when... Even it's not that people will respect you. It's about in the way that you can continue after the war and after this presidential job, you will continue living your country, go through the streets, and nobody will want to kill you and hate you. And just because you've been like a piece of (censored), not a leader, and not a man. I mean, this is what you do. The way how you live and the way how you try to live. Sometimes with all my mistakes and et cetera, during the war, you have so many mistakes. Why? Because you have to help President Trump make a deal” the Ukrainian leader remarked.

On September 22, Zelenskyy met with US President Donald Trump in New York. The talks took place on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly and lasted about 40 minutes, after which the presidents concluded the meeting without publicly announcing any specific new agreements.

After the meeting, Zelenskyy confirmed that he had rejected US President Donald Trump’s request to stop striking Russian oil refineries.

Zelenskyy said he did so because he believes the increase in prices is primarily being driven by the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz rather than Ukrainian strikes on Russia.

He also added that if everyone wants to resolve the issue of diesel prices in this way, then they should help Ukraine stop Vladimir Putin and his blackouts in Ukraine and “force” him to stop attacking civilian infrastructure.

“Our lives are more important than the price of energy,” the Ukrainian leader stressed, noting that diesel prices may matter to some people.

By Bakhtiyar Abbasov