Chief Correspondent Stuart Ramsay asked Volodymyr Zelenskiy whether he felt the country was in a wasted situation, given all that Ukraine had suffered.
“No, this is wrong,” he says. “This is a very sensitive point, but this is wrong.
“Our people did not give their lives for nothing. They gave their lives for the lives of their children and grandchildren, and for the lives of all Ukrainians today.
“And these people are fulfilling not only a personal duty, but a constitutional duty to protect our country.”
He said the deceased Ukrainians had “already won” and that had they not sacrificed “their time, their lives and their comfort,” Putin would have conquered all of Ukraine. said.
“That’s true,” Zelenskiy added. “And no one would have helped us rise, and after conquering the whole country he would have completely destroyed us.
“We will become another Belarus or another part of the Russian Empire.”
Asked about how the war has affected President Zelenskiy personally, the Ukrainian president said he feels the conflict the same way his people do.
“We lost so much, but we found so much more, we found ourselves,” he says.
“We have found our identity. We know 100% who we are and who the Russians are.”
About his family, he added: “Even though there is distance between us, even if we cannot see each other every day or every moment, we are very close.”
