Zelenskyy tells European Political Community summit: "Russia kills, intimidates, and corrupts. It must be defeated in Ukraine"

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this at the European Political Community summit. 

"Peace is needed! Russia is killing. Russian murderers have carried out assassinations on people in various European countries. And they have organized sabotage in Europe - against warehouses with weapons, against factories, and now against gas pipelines. Russia intimidates and blackmails the world to stop helping those it kills. It uses everything from the food crisis to radiation blackmail, from destabilizing energy markets to nuclear blackmail.

Russia is corrupt. It corrupts with the billions it earns from trading in energy resources. This is the Russian formula for war: kill, intimidate, fix threats to free states and their losses, destroy borders, and corrupt. Ukraine is only the first battlefield where this state has entered. And it is necessary to defeat it in Ukraine," Zelenskyy emphasized.

The Ukrainian President presented five points of the peace formula.

"The first one is to punish the aggressor. To strengthen sanctions against Russia. To stop any cooperation. To exclude it from all international organizations or at least suspend its membership and its ability to distort the activities of international institutions, primarily the UN.

The second one is aid to Ukraine. By helping us, each of your states is helping itself. Look at the battlefield in Ukraine now. This is such an intense war that the absolute majority of states simply would not be able to wage. And that is why this war must be won now - to be won in Ukraine.q

The third point of our peace formula is the restoration of security and territorial integrity.  We do it. We do it together with you, with your help.

The fourth point is security guarantees. We need security guarantees before we join NATO and along the way. And we will do it. We will also do it together with you. Our proposals regarding security guarantees are presented to partners," the President of Ukraine assured.

Zelenskyy called determination the fifth point of peace. It is categorically and without hesitation that the world should block the war and implement the peace formula in Ukraine. 

"There will be a day when Russian evil will lose. It will be the day when our formula for peace will win. When you and I will fully use all the possibilities of our unity. We, the leaders of Europe, can become leaders of peace. Our European political community can become the European community of peace," Zelenskyy added.