Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that a popular referendum would amend the Constitution on the neutral status of Ukraine in a few months.
"Security guarantees and neutrality, a non-nuclear status of our state. We are ready to go for it. This was the first point of principle for the Russian Federation," Zelenskyy said in an interview with Russian journalists published on the website of the President's Office.
Zelenskyy affirmed that Ukraine is ready to amend the Constitution in terms of neutral status, but an agreement on security guarantees cannot be signed in the presence of the Russian troops.
"Representatives of the guarantor countries will not sign anything if we have troops. None of the guarantors – Johnson, Biden, who will sit down? Duda? Erdogan? Who will sit down to talk about something if there are troops? Who will sign something? There will be nothing. It's impossible. Therefore, there is no need to wait for amendments in the law."
"Therefore, we must have agreements with President Putin. To reach an agreement, he needs to withdraw troops from Ukraine and come to meet me. Any point in the world except, I think, a pointless meeting in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine," the head of the state noted.
Moreover, he emphasized that the issues of denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine were not discussed at the meetings with Russian delegations.
"We don't discuss denazification and demilitarization with the Russian Federation at all. For me, these are generally incomprehensible things. Our side said that there can be no denazification and demilitarization. We are not interested in these points at all."
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