The Daily Populous Friday November 8th, 2024 evening edition
Authored by politico.eu and submitted by Tac0321

Speaking to journalists in Budapest where he was attending a gathering of European leaders, Zelenskyy said that while Ukraine sought a “fair” end to the war, rushing into a cease-fire or a peace deal with Moscow would lead to a bad outcome for Kyiv.

“He [Trump] wants this war to be finished,” Zelenskyy said through an interpreter. “We all want to end this war, but a fair ending ... If it is very fast, it’s going to be a loss for Ukraine.”

The Ukrainian leader also responded to an appeal from Hungarian strongman Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, issued minutes earlier from the same stage, for a rapid cease-fire deal between the two warring camps.

“I heard that it’s better to implement a cease-fire and then, ‘we’ll see,’” Zelenskyy said, referring to Orbán’s comments. “[A] cease-fire was tried back in 2014. We tried to reach this cease-fire and we lost Crimea and then we had the full-scale invasion.”

“I believe that President Trump really wants a quick decision” to end Russia’s war against Ukraine, Zelenskyy told journalists in Budapest. | Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

A rapid, unenforceable cease-fire, Zelenskyy added, amounted to “preparation to ruin and destroy our independence.”

The Ukrainian leader also warned that unless his country’s Western backers ramped up the pressure over North Korea’s participation in the war, more North Korean troops would be sent to the battlefield.

“If there is no political pressure, if there are no decisions, North Korea will increase the number of its soldiers because Putin is always watching the world for reactions and I believe right now the reaction is not sufficient.”

Sotherewehavethat on November 8th, 2024 at 10:22 UTC »

Important Zelenskyy quote from the article:

> “If there is no political pressure, if there are no decisions, North Korea will increase the number of its soldiers because Putin is always watching the world for reactions and I believe right now the reaction is not sufficient.”

Come to think of it, can we officially say that North Korea has declared war on Ukraine yet?

fedaykin909 on November 8th, 2024 at 09:53 UTC »

Russia can have peace tomorrow by fucking off back to their own country.

Nice-Panda-7981 on November 8th, 2024 at 09:11 UTC »

The probleme here is that if Ukraine concedes chunks of land it will be a win for Rusia which will take this opportunity to regroup and attack again and again. He’s right about not wanting to give up anything.