He said he would ask U.S. President Donald Trump to supply weapons and sanction Russia if Moscow broke the deals.
“The U.S. side considers that our agreements come into force after their announcement by the U.S. side,“ Zelenskiy told reporters at a news conference in Kyiv, adding that he did not trust Russia to honour the arrangements.
“Unfortunately, even now, even today, on the very day of negotiations, we see how the Russians have already begun to manipulate,“ Zelenskiy said.
He said the Kremlin was lying when it said accords on Black Sea shipping were linked to sanctions imposed on Moscow. Ukraine, he said, would do everything to implement the accords, but Russia had to understand that it would “receive a strong response” if it launched strikes.
‘NO FAITH’
“We have no faith in the Russians, but we will be constructive,“ he said.
Nightly Russian drone attacks have been a feature of life in big Ukrainian cities for months. So have power outages as missiles hammered the power grid. Kyiv has used drones to hit Russian oil refineries to raise the costs for its larger foe.
The Kremlin issued a list of Russian and Ukrainian facilities subject to the moratorium on strikes, including oil refineries, oil and gas pipelines and nuclear power plants.
The White House said in a joint statement with Russia that it would help Moscow restore its access to the world market for agricultural and fertiliser exports.
“We believe that this is a weakening of position and sanctions,“ he said.
In such an event, Kyiv will have the right to self-defence, he said, implying that Ukraine could retaliate.
“The American side really wanted all of this not to fail, so they did not want to go into many details. But in any case we will have to understand answers to each of the details,“ Zelenskiy said.
Separately, Zelenskiy said the United States had presented Ukraine with an expanded version of a bilateral minerals deal that went beyond the initial framework agreement that the two sides agreed earlier but never signed following an acrimonious Oval Office meeting last month.
Zelenskiy said he had not been able to fully review the new proposal in detail yet, but that it did not include greater U.S. involvement in Ukraine’s nuclear power sector, something that has been floated by Washington in recent days.
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