Zelensky said only pressure on Moscow, not Crimea, can force Putin to stop the war.

Zelensky said only pressure on Moscow, not Crimea, can force Putin to stop the war. He rejected Putin’s claims of a special attachment to Crimea, saying the Russian leader knows both Crimea and Ukraine’s east only through officers’ reports. Zelensky said Putin needs to sell Russian society a major victory, but has none, so Moscow relies on mass strikes, intimidation, and aggressive rhetoric.