The conversation about easing sanctions against Russia can be started only when the Russian army leaves the territory of Ukraine. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskiy stated this in an interview with the CNN newspaper.
"You can't lift sanctions, you can't negotiate with Russia, you can't conduct substantive dialogue with Russia until they leave our territory," he said.
In Zelenskiy's opinion, this is the starting point for a dialogue on easing or lifting sanctions, reparations, etc.
"Everything after that - you can talk about the sanctions policy, about the lifting of certain sanctions, about reparations, reimbursement of money, about diplomacy, about dialogue. All this can be done at the level of the presidents of all states, any institutions and with someone from RF "If they left our territories. This is the point from which a new story begins," the Ukrainian leader believes.
Zelenskiy added that Ukraine has no way out and this is not its weakness, but its strength, the Russian Federation, unlike Ukraine, has a choice.
"Russia has a way out - to go home. We only have this house, where do we go? We have nowhere to go. The question is not how long it (the war) will be, but how long it will take," added the president, clarifying, answering the journalist's question, that Ukraine will fight to the end.