Zelenskiy says conflict can only ‘definitively end through diplomacy’; Andrzej Duda on Sunday due to become first head of state to address Ukraine parliament in person since invasion
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Polish president Andrzej Duda is set to deliver a speech to Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada on Sunday, a gesture that will make him the first head of a foreign state to do so since the start of Russia’s invasion.
Duda arrived in Kyiv on Saturday and “will deliver the address as the first head of a foreign state since the outbreak of the war”, his office said.
I really thought that the war could end with dialogue. But, unfortunately, I thought that this was a dialogue with the appropriate timing, that it would be possible to find answers to many questions and many decisions with the Russian side. I really thought so. And now it is a hybrid. That is why the war is so difficult.
And the victory will be very difficult. It will be bloody, it will be in battle, but the end will definitely be in diplomacy.
We want everything back. And the Russian Federation doesn’t want to return anything. That’s why the ending will be at the negotiating table.
We want the territories back and this war to be over. But how and when it will happen depends on the time when the conversation with Putin will take place.
