"Western countries should choose negotiations"...Zelenskyy "Giving up territory gives in"

[Anchor]
When Trump's return to the White House was confirmed, Russia, which is at war with Ukraine, publicly discussed the negotiations and put pressure on the West.

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said a cease-fire to give up territory would yield to Putin, and appealed that even North Korean troops were threatening their people.

Reporter Jeong Yu-shin's report.

[Reporter]
For the first time since former President Trump's return to power was confirmed, Russian President Putin has given a public speech.

Putin says countries are putting their interests forward more and more strongly, and he says a whole new world order is being formed.

[Vladimir Putin, President of Russia] A whole new world order is being formed. A new power is emerging, and they are increasingly putting their interests forward.

Shoigu, secretary of the National Security Council, a close ally of Putin, was more straightforward.

It said the West must choose whether to continue to support Ukraine and destroy it or to realise the reality and engage in dialogue.

He publicly pressured the West to negotiate, saying that Russia should acknowledge its superiority in the war.

Russian Kremlin spokesman Peskov also stressed that he remembered Trump's comments that he said could end the war in Ukraine in a single day.

[Dmitri Peskov, Kremlin spokesman] We remember Trump's promise to resolve the Ukraine issue before he took office. Of course, it would have been an exaggeration to solve it in a day.]

At the same time, he said there is a possibility that President Putin will communicate before Trump's inauguration, and that he will fully consider the U.S. proposal for dialogue.

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, who had congratulated Trump the day before, was in a hurry.

The cease-fire on the premise of giving up territory is tantamount to giving in to Putin, reiterating his call for aid that North Korean soldiers are trying to kill their own people on European soil.

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It also said some of the 10,000 North Korean soldiers deployed in Russia's Kursk region were deployed to combat, leading to the first recent fighting and North Korean casualties.

In the meantime, local media reported that at least 10 people were killed or injured in Russia's airstrikes on homes and hospitals in Zaporizhzhia.

This is YTN Jeong Yu-shin.