Zelensky gives interview to Russian journalists. Moscow orders it quashed.
People during the"National Day of Action" protest in support of Ukraine at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, March 27, 2022.
“First they refused, then something else, then they proposed some sorts of bags to us,” Zelenskyy said, describing Ukraine’s efforts to hand over the bodies of Russian soldiers. “Listen, even when a dog or a cat dies, people don’t do this.” Novaya Gazeta, the independent newspaper whose editor, Dmitry A. Muratov, shared the Nobel Peace Prize last year, decided not to publish the interview, even though Zygar asked a question on Muratov’s behalf. Unlike many other Russian journalists, Muratov has stayed in Russia and kept his newspaper operating despite the new law, even though that has meant using the Kremlin’s terminology of calling the war a “special military operation” and not an invasion.
Videos of the interview had been viewed more than 1 million times within a few hours of being published, offering a very different picture of the war to Russians than what they see daily on their television screens.
He said that Ukraine would, however, be willing to discuss lifting restrictions on the Russian language and adopting a neutral geopolitical status. Any deal, he said, would need to be validated by a referendum to be held after Russian troops withdraw.
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