ROME (ITALPRESS) – “Trump is the U.S. president-elect, he has not yet taken his seat in the White House and he has two months to carefully prepare all the steps to be taken when he takes office. I cannot speak for the Ukrainian president nor for Ukraine, what I can say is my personal opinion.”
“We have to work with every U.S. administration because it is clear that the United States is an influential country. We see that every day. They influence not only what happens at the front in Ukraine, but also other countries. In fact, during the elections the whole world was holding its breath waiting to see how they would turn out.” Thus Olena Zelenska, wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, interviewed by “La Repubblica.” Will a just peace come to Kiev with Trump? “We can only hope so,” Zelenska replied, adding that with him “no one can be completely sure but, again, this is a personal opinion.” On the imminent arrival of the cold season, he stressed, “My family also has to survive the winter, as we all do. We don’t want more blackouts, cold, and seeing our children doing homework by candlelight. Nobody wants that. We have withstood other winters of war, we will do it this time too. Our people have great resilience.” “The data show that Ukrainians are not leaving the country. They are staying, they are optimistic and still hope for victory.” Regarding Ukrainian children deported to Russia, they are “currently 388, however, there are 19,500 still in Russia. The Ukrainian presidential programBring Kids Back involves manyCountries, it is a complicated procedure. The 388 children are certainly not back because there is an agile and working process, every time the obstacles are huge. When a special mission leaves, thousands of people are affected, as well as humanitarian associations and a ‘special advocate’ like Cardinal Zuppi, whom I thank.” “The Russians change the names of the children, providing them with new documents. When they then want from us the list of subjects to be returned with the name, date and place of birth, they can no longer find them. They have deported many orphans from occupied areas, often no certain information is recovered about them,” he added.
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