Zelensky rejects Olympic truce name, saying it might assist Russia

KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in an interview with AFP on Friday rejected a French name for an Olympic truce this summer time, saying it might simply assist Russia transfer its troops and tools.

Zelensky mentioned he had spoken to French President Emmanuel Macron who made the enchantment and informed him: “Let’s be trustworthy… Emmanuel, I do not consider it”.

“Who can assure that Russia won’t use this time to deliver its forces to our territory?” Zelensky mentioned, including: “To begin with, we do not belief Putin”.

“We’re towards any truce that performs into the arms of the enemy,” he mentioned.

“If it is a truce, an Olympic truce throughout the Olympics, a land truce, they’ll have a bonus,” he mentioned, explaining that there was “a threat that they’ll deliver heavy tools to our territory and nobody will be capable of cease them”.

Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier on Friday additionally instructed that Moscow wouldn’t help the concept of a truce in the course of the video games in Paris this summer time.