President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was asked at a press conference to comment on reports from The Wall Street Journal indicating that the US proposes recognising Crimea as Russian, rejecting Ukraine's aspirations to join NATO, and creating a neutral zone around the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) under US control, Zelenskyy at a press conference aired by Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspilne, APA reports.
"As soon as we start discussing Crimea, our sovereign territories, we enter the format of prolonging the war – this is exactly what Russia wants. We've been at war for 12 years. This is the answer to the question of whether it is possible to reach an agreement with Russia on the territories."
Regarding media reports about the proposal to recognise Crimea as Russian, Zelenskyy noted that "these are signals, ideas, visions, you can call them different names. But these are not official proposals to Ukraine".
"But Ukraine does not legally recognise Crimea as Russian, it is outside our Constitution. This is our territory, the territory of the people of Ukraine. This will not happen, I think we've declared this in relation to any temporarily occupied territory. And the Constitution of Ukraine declares this by its existence."
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