"Doubted that we would return home": Reznikov told about negotiations with the Russian Federation in Minsk

According to the head of the defense department, he hardly agreed to the request of President Vladimir Zelensky to be in the Ukrainian delegation, as he felt a deep hatred of the enemy. Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov said that during the first three meetings with the Russians to Minsk, the Ukrainian delegation did not feel safe. He told about it in an interview with the Argentine newspaper La Razón, published on Sunday, April 16.

Reznikov spoke about negotiations with Russia, answering the question of which day was the most difficult for him since the beginning of the war. According to the head of the defense department, it was difficult for him to become participants in the negotiation with representatives of the aggressor country. "It was very difficult to say" yes "to the President when he asked me because I felt a deep hatred. And as a converter I know that it is an emotion that did not serve any purpose.

It was awful that I had to shake his hand to the enemy. I will tell you that many of us thought so when they saw these shots, "Reznikov recalls. The minister also added that during the first three trips to Belarus, the members of the Ukrainian delegation were not sure that they would return back. "There were four meetings, three in Belarus and one in Turkey. I will tell you that in the first three we did not feel safe and even doubted that we would return home. It was a call," Reznikov said.

We will remind, in an interview with La Razón Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexei Reznikov also said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had suffered losses during a full -scale war with Russia less than the number of victims of earthquake in Turkey. Earlier, on March 14, Reznikov stated that after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, no country will give up nuclear weapons.