“I hope that what happened is a major shift. Maybe I’ll even use such a classic journalistic stamp - a tectonic shift in relations. At least, I would really like it, because, to be honest, Zelensky won on the country's great expectations, on the expectations of peace, on the expectations of reconciliation within the country ... People want changes, ”the journalist said.
He expressed the hope that these changes will occur.
"How fast? I think that now this is a very rhetorical question, for which there is definitely no answer, because it is impossible to predict. We all believe that this will happen. In this sense, I share the optimism of Vladimir Putin, who believes that there simply is no other option, that these two countries, two nations that have come from the same root, are obligated, doomed to reconciliation, ”he said.
On September 7, an exchange of held persons took place between Russia and Ukraine according to the “35 for 35” formula.
Cyril Vyshinsky also returned to Russia. Moscow, among others, handed over to Kiev sailors and Oleg Sentsov.
US President Donald Trump, commenting on the exchange, said that this could be "the first big step towards peace."
RT is broadcasting the press conference live.