President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that he would like to hold a substantive summit of the leaders of the countries participating in the Normandy format, which would end with concrete results and bring an end to the war in the Donbas and the de-occupation of Ukrainian territories as close as possible. The head of state announced this during the YES Brainstorming event organized by the Yalta European Strategy in Kyiv.
Asked if his attitude toward Russian President Vladimir Putin has changed, Zelenskyy said that there is no time to think about it.
"I am more interested in whether we can really meet and have substantive discussions. Not declarative, as he does with some states, but really to meet and have more substantive dialogue than it was during the first meeting in the Normandy format," the President of Ukraine said.
The head of state said that after the Normandy Four summit in Paris in December 2019, certain results were achieved, in particular, Ukraine returned more than a hundred detained persons. However, most of the issues still remain unresolved.
At the same time, the head of state said that there is still a likelihood of full-scale military aggression of Russia against Ukraine, but he believes that this would be the biggest mistake of the Russian Federation because after that it will be difficult to imagine good neighborly relations between the countries.
Zelenskyy believes that sooner or later the status quo will be restored, Ukraine will return its temporarily occupied territories, and, maybe, over time, relations between the two countries could be somewhat restored.