Yet despite a string of battlefield setbacks, Zelensky added, Russia’s murderous intentions hadn’t changed. “All they can do is kill all of us,” he said. “And I fear that it may be their goal.” That was why Ukraine refused to consider a cease-fire on terms favourable to Russia. “It is a whale that has swallowed two regions and now says: freeze the conflict,” Zelensky said impatiently. “Then it will rest, and in two or three years, it will seize two more regions and say again: freeze the conflict. And it will keep going further and further. One hundred per cent.”...