Zelenskyy spoke to Russian journalists for the first time since the start of the war.

 A few hours later, Russia’s media censor ordered the four reporters not to publish the interview and vowed to investigate them. Here are some of the main statements voiced by the President of Ukraine:

1. Security guarantees and neutrality, and the nuclear-free status of our state. We are ready to go for it.
2. If we signed any agreements, we want to turn this paper into a serious agreement … and I will then take it to a referendum. It will be signed by all guarantors of security, where there are security guarantees. Parliaments must ratify it.
3. This is not simply a war. This is much worse, and a global, historical, and cultural split has happened over this past month.
4. The Russian government has forcibly taken more than 2,000 children from Mariupol, and their location is unknown.
5. Mariupol is a humanitarian catastrophe. All entrances and exits from the city of Mariupol are blocked. It is impossible to enter the city with food, medicine, and water. The port is mined.
6. Zelenskyy offers Putin a route out of the Ukraine War. It’s a compromise. Return to where it all began, and there we will try to solve the issue of Donbas, the complex issue of Donbas.
7. Zelenskyy accused the Russian government of forging documents that purportedly showed Ukraine’s armed forces planned a pre-emptive strike on Donbas.
8. Ukraine will not discuss two of Putin’s demands—the de-militarization and “de-Nazification” of Ukraine. This is simply nonsense.