‘They are going forward’: Zelensky reports slow progress in war negotiations

By AP 23 March 2022, 4:13 am

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In this image from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks from Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 21, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says negotiations with Russia are going “step by step, but they are going forward.”

The talks are being held by video between delegations from both sides.

“Its very difficult. Sometimes it’s scandalous,” he says, without giving details.

Zelensky has been having a series of conversations with Western leaders in the days before the leaders of NATO countries gather in Brussels to discuss the response to the war in Ukraine.

He says he spoke yesterday to Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, “who supports us.”

Zelensky says he expects the Western leaders to approve more sanctions to punish Russia and more help for Ukraine.

“We will work, we will fight, as hard as we can, to the last, bravely and openly,” he said.