President Zelensky has admitted that Ukraine’s armed forces are unable to drive out Russian troops from Crimea and other occupied territories in Ukraine.
Although he said that Ukraine would never recognise Russian rule, Zelensky said that only diplomatic pressure could force Moscow to withdraw its occupying army.
“We cannot give up our territories. The Ukrainian constitution forbids us to do so. De facto, these territories are now controlled by the Russians. We do not have the strength to recover them,” he told the French newspaper Le Parisien.
