Zelenskyy warns: Short window of opportunity between ceasefire and peace deal

He said this in an interview with Time magazine.

“Ever since 2014, they (Russians - ed.) constantly broke the peace. Here’s the way I see it. They are going to violate it all the time. That is why the window of opportunity is very short between the point when we have a ceasefire, and the point at which we reach a deal to end the war. It has to be a very short period. One month, two, three, and that’s it.”

According to the Ukrainian president, after that, they will talk about the morale of the military, as Ukraine has 800,000 armed people. Zelenskyy clarified that the issue is “not only about finances,” because “if we do not have an agreement to end the war, it becomes a frozen conflict.”

“And we can’t just keep living in a state of war. We need to open the borders. We need to liberalize many things. And we can do that if we sign an agreement,” he noted.

Zelenskyy believes that if the period between the ceasefire and the peace agreement is short, “we may see only isolated violations here and there.”

“That would not be a total collapse. But if the process drags on, it will all fall apart many times over. And we don’t know how that will end,”  the President emphasized.

• On Tuesday, March 25, a new round of talks took place in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, between the Ukrainian and American delegations.
• President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that on March 25, a ceasefire on energy infrastructure could be implemented, and this issue has been agreed upon with the United States.