Zelensky snubs Macron plan for truce with Russia during Paris Olympics

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1. ***The Telegraph reports:***

   Ukraine’s president has snubbed Emmanuel Macron’s call for a truce with Russia during the Olympics this summer and said the West has put his country in a “nonsense situation”.

   Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday rejected the French president’s plan for a break in fighting during the Games in Paris and said such a move would hand an “advantage” to Moscow by giving it time to move around troops and artillery.

   He told AFP that Ukraine and its Western allies had the “same values” but often “different views”, particularly on how to end the conflict.

   “We are in a nonsense situation where the West is afraid that Russia will lose the war. And it does not want Ukraine to lose it,” Mr Zelensky said.

   “Everyone wants to find some model for the war to end faster,” he said, when asked about the possibility of a scenario for ending hostilities like the one that established a dividing line on the Korean peninsula.

   Mr Zelensky on Friday warned that Putin could intensify his offensive and said Kyiv would only accept a “fair peace” despite the West’s calls for a quick solution.

   Ukraine’s president also repeated pleas for allies to send more air defence and fighter jets and said the “biggest advantage” for Russia was a ban on Ukraine using Western-donated weapons to strike Russian territory.

   With a mobilisation law coming into force on Saturday, he admitted issues with staffing and “morale” in Ukrainian ranks, which have been often outgunned and outmanned as the third year of the war grinds on.

   While Russian troops have made gradual advances in recent months, it has seen larger gains along the northeastern border in an offensive that began on May 10 in Kharkiv region.

   Mr Zelensky said the situation in the Kharkiv region, where thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes, was “controlled” but “not stabilised”.

   Russian forces have advanced as far as six miles since mobile units crossed over the border last week – their biggest gains in a year and a half.

   **Full story here:** [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/05/18/ukraine-russia-war-zelensky-putin-macron-olympics-paris/](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/05/18/ukraine-russia-war-zelensky-putin-macron-olympics-paris/)

2. Sorry but when it comes to war I wouldn’t listen to the French

   Cakes and bread yes

3. Fuck the surrender monkey’s & there truce, why help the Russian Nazis

4. Macron, Macron, Macron.

   Macron seems to be the best representation of European politicians: heart’s in the right place, but he doesn’t understand the enemy.

   If the former soviet countries were the ones with tons of Western weapons, perhaps Russia would’ve been beaten back to its borders by now.

   Pause the fighting. What a sick joke.

5. And right he is, because Ukraine’s current best chance is to outkill/outdestroy Russia’s production capacity. A pause would lead to Russia stockpiling and discharching in one go.

6. Let Macron give up part of France to Russia first, just to understand what we know Ukraine would be expected to do.

7. It’s tradition for the host country to call for an “olympic truce”. Happens every time. It’s decorum, nothing more.

8. Russia shelled Ukrainian on Christmas Day, on Easter Sunday, on VE Day.

   You think they will honour a truce for some fucking sports? Get fucked. Russia has no honour and they lie more than they breathe. They will use this as an opportunity to kill civilians and then blame the truce breaking on Ukraine. Like they have done since 2014.

9. Fuck the Olympics, there are people dying in their hundreds every day in this war

10. As during a truce there is no fighting it would be the perfect time to fulfill Ukraine’s entry into NATO. This would be next level trolling and at the same time ensure an actual peace scenario, as any further attack by russians would trigger article five if we’re pedantic.