Zelenskyy gave hope with a statement about the military contingent

Ukraine has made significant progress on the issue of the military contingent, despite the fact that there are still many skeptics.

This was stated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a press conference.

"The issue of the contingent, the issue of a European army as a whole, can have such a first step. What I said about the European Armed Forces, the first step is when there is a Ukrainian army and there are the European Armed Forces on the territory of Ukraine. I believe that this is the first platform for the future creation of such a force - the European Armed Forces, an army that will be able to respond to an unprovoked war from Russia in the sky, on water, on land, with drones, in artificial intelligence, and so on," the Ukrainian leader said.

According to him, today there is a living platform, not "paper agreements."

"I am talking about a specific example. Here is Ukraine, here are the Russians. We can create a platform with strong countries, but only those who want it. This is very important. Not those we force, but those who want it. You know very well - a soldier who was forced or a soldier who came on their own, that’s an entirely different army. I really want us to become exactly like that. We want security guarantees not on paper, but on the ground, in the water, in the sky, with air defense, planes, ships," Zelenskyy emphasized.

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