(28 Mar 2025)
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Kyiv, Ukraine – 28 March 2025
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1. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian President:
"We are taking appropriate steps to reduce the accumulation of their troops, to disperse them, so to speak. And for this purpose, we have taken appropriate steps just outside the Kursk region. As for the fact that geographically, this happens in the Bryansk region, we, frankly, do not care about their regions; they can count it as two regions. They don’t even talk about it; they’re afraid. But we do it only because we see the accumulation, we see their analysis, we see their interception, we see their documents, audio recordings."
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2. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian President: ++INCLUDES CAMERA MOVEMENT++
"In terms of debts and so on, I would say, I don’t know how, I honestly don’t know. Well, if this issue is raised there, yes, we will not accept debts. As I said, these are absolutely clear things for me, I don’t recognize them. At least we are talking about the past. If, again, I repeat myself, if there are any new prospects, new support, new support packages, the United States of America can probably set certain conditions with an understanding that this (Trump’s) team will do nothing for us for free. They say this officially."
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3. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian President:
"It’s like ping pong – what Putin says. You can’t always get an answer. I think in principle we would agree not to talk to him, but to someone representing Russia. I think there are people, Russia has businesses, they have a lot of regions."
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4. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian President:
"I think we could talk to them if they have a view on how to end the war. I think that if they are willing to go against the fact that Putin does not want to end it, and some people do, then why not? “I think there is some opposition there (in Russia), an opposition that is afraid of Putin. Maybe they will not be afraid if Europe, America, and Ukraine are ready to talk with the opposition?”
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STORYLINE:
Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed on Friday the presence of Ukrainian troops in the Bryansk region of Russia.
According to Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian army took “appropriate steps” near the Kursk region of Russia to “reduce the accumulation and disperse” Russian troops.
However, Zelenskyy indicated that a Ukrainian presence in Bryansk region specifically was not an initial aim.
“As for the fact that geographically this happens in the Bryansk region, we, frankly, do not care about their regions, they can count it as two regions. They don’t even talk about it, they’re afraid,” Zelenskyy told a press conference in Kyiv.
He also said that Ukrainian troops physically remain in the Kursk region of Russia, not encircled, as a mean to deter Russian intentions to invade Sumy region of Ukraine.
Commenting on the latest “mineral deal” proposal from the US, Zelenskyy said Ukraine will adhere to the “clear points” outlined in the previous framework version of the deal, which was supposed to be signed in Washington on February 28.
Zelenskyy reiterated that Ukraine will not recognize its debt to US within the mineral deal, “at least if we are talking about the past.”
He added that the US is entitled to “set certain conditions” regarding any “new prospects, new support, new support packages."
“This (Trump’s) team will do nothing for us for free. They say this officially."
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