Ukraine’s President Volodymr Zelensky has urged Australia to reopen its embassy in Kyiv during his first internationally televised live news conference to mark one year since Russia’s invasion of his country.
Zelensky used the media attention to heap pressure on China, Latin America and African countries to pick their side in the war in a 2.5-hour question and answer session with the world’s press.Credit:Asked by Australian journalist Ben Lewis, of SBS, if he wanted to see Australia to reopen its Ukrainian embassy, Zelensky switched from speaking in his native tongue to English to answer.
alongside dozens of diplomats in January last year as tens of thousands of Russian troops assembled at the Ukrainian border ahead of the invasion. “I’ll be very happy, really. I have relations with Australia and they really helped us a lot. I had a big, huge, deficit with armoued vehicles and it [was a] very important moment.
He said there are points in the Chinese proposals that he agrees with, and some he doesn’t. He said China’s involvement could be useful in isolating Russia, adding that Ukraine’s task “is to gather everyone to isolate the one”.
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