Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin – the Russian mercenary leader whose plane crashed weeks after he led a mutiny against Moscow’s military leadership – shows what happens when people make deals with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

As Ukraine’s counteroffensive moves into a fourth month, with only modest gains to show so far, Zelensky told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria he rejected suggestions it was time to negotiate peace with the Kremlin.

“When you want to have a compromise or a dialogue with somebody, you cannot do it with a liar,” Volodymyr Zelensky said.

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    1 year ago

    …maybe we need to take a step back on this international community thing, at least until the people in power aren’t the same ones who want to use it for neo-colonialism. Or maybe we could rebuild it, this time with common individuals being the basis instead of corporations and their subversive power struggles. Because right now it looks like the “international community” is going to have the effect of turning us all into the bad guys…