Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin – the Russian mercenary leader whose plane crashed weeks after he led a mutiny against Moscow’s military leadership – shows what happens when people make deals with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

As Ukraine’s counteroffensive moves into a fourth month, with only modest gains to show so far, Zelensky told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria he rejected suggestions it was time to negotiate peace with the Kremlin.

“When you want to have a compromise or a dialogue with somebody, you cannot do it with a liar,” Volodymyr Zelensky said.

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    1 year ago

    Because criticism of the west is totally irrelevant to the question. It’s not even whataboutism; it’s absurdity. Even if the west is literally Satan incarnate, why does that mean we have to let Putin wage whatever war of aggression he desires?

    The people who advance this argument are so anti-US they’ve become dictator simps. I think it’s good to shove the absurdity of their positions back in their faces.

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      Did you miss the very first sentence of my comment where I said:

      Who here said “we must let bad things happen”

      And the whole rest of the comment that refutes your claim that we “have to let Putin wage whatever war of aggression he desires”?

      Please take the time to read it again, because your points were already addressed.

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        Nothing in your comment refuted anything. Be as angry as you want at America; it has nothing to do with anything Putin is doing in Ukraine. It isn’t even whataboutism, as I said before. It’s just absurdity.

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          I pointed at the exact sentence that refuted what you said. You kept responding to whatever I didn’t say. If you’re not addressing what I said in my comment, you’re just talking to yourself. I’ll stop replying until you address me directly. Enjoy talking to yourself.