No smoldering or frozen conflict should continue: Zelenskyy says only unambiguous defeat of Russian will protect against new wars

Volodymyr Zelenskyy shared the statement in his evening address on August 8.

"After this Russian war against Ukraine, neither smoldering nor frozen conflict should remain. Ukraine should return everything that Russia temporarily seized, and the aggressor state should be punished for the crime of aggression," he said.

This is important because only the obvious defeat of Russia and the loss of everything it captured, as well as international legal responsibility for aggression, are safeguards against any new war.

“This is what our diplomats, the President’s Office, government officials and absolutely everyone involved in organizing a global political, economic and legal response to Russian aggression are working on. By protecting our state, we automatically protect everyone who has already been threatened or may still be threatened by a terrorist state,"added Zelenskyy.