Ukraine will not be a “liberal” state in the near future, and security will become the number one priority, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with Ukrainian journalists shown on Tuesday as part of the all-Ukrainian telethon.
“Ukraine will definitely not be the one we wanted from the very beginning. It’s impossible. Absolutely liberal, European – it will not be like that. It will definitely come from the fortress of every hut, every house, every person,” he said. “We will become a “greater Israel” with our own face. We will not be surprised if there are representatives of the Armed Forces or the National Guard in our cinemas, supermarkets, people with weapons will stand. I am sure that the issue of security will be number 1 for us in the next 10 years. I am sure of this,” Zelensky said, adding: “The state will be the way the Russian Federation made it.”
At the same time, he noted, such a state would be democratic. “An authoritarian state is impossible in Ukraine. An authoritarian state would lose to Russia. People know what they are fighting for. They come out and fight not for a portrait,” said the President of Ukraine.
