"It is not the criminal who will prevail": Zelenskyy at Crimean Platform Summit

The President's Office reported the information.

Zelenskyy emphasized that if countries are successful in ending the war in Ukraine fairly, then any other nation against which similar aggression may be planned can be sure that the world will protect international law.

"Russia is evading good-faith diplomacy and does not want to give back what it has stolen. But we must compel them to do so. This means we need to strengthen Ukraine and our shared positions," Zelenskyy added.

The president also recalled the Victory Plan and noted that if the Victory Plan is fully implemented, Russia will be seen at the Peace Summit.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy also noted that the UN Charter is about true peace, not about normalizing war, and said that “today is the UN Day all over the world, not somewhere in Kazan.”

"And now, as some state leaders gathered at Putin’s summit in Kazan, and as military personnel from North Korea can actually be moved closer to the front in Ukraine, alongside their summit, accompanied by words about allegedly ‘preventing tension,’ we still know: it is not the criminal who will prevail, not the one who destroys and deports, but the one who unites peoples based on fundamental human values and the UN Charter," the president said.

• The BRICS leaders adopted the final declaration of the summit, in which, in particular, they mentioned "national positions on the situation in Ukraine." The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry responded.