Zelensky: Putin will continue the invasion even if the conflict is frozen

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said at the Davos summit that Putin will continue his invasion of Ukraine even if the fighting on the vast front stops, AFP reported.
The Russian military's incursion into Ukraine has sparked fierce and costly fighting, but over the past year the front line has barely moved.
"After 2014, there were attempts to freeze the war in Donbas," Zelensky said, referring to his country's industrial east.
"There were very influential guarantors - the chancellor of Germany, the president of France, but Putin is a predator who is not satisfied with frozen products," he told the world's political elite.
The Ukrainian president was referring to talks in Minsk between Germany, France, Ukraine and Russia aimed at ending fighting between the Ukrainian military and Kremlin-backed separatists who seized large swaths of eastern Ukraine in 2014.
Ukrainian officials regularly point to these rounds of talks in the Belarusian capital as evidence that talks with Moscow are futile because the Kremlin ordered the invasion of Ukraine despite ceasefire agreements.
Zelensky used the Davos stage to tell the audience that the Russian leader has expansionist goals that go beyond even Ukraine's borders.
"If someone thinks that it is only about us, only about Ukraine, they are completely wrong," he said.
"Possible directions and even deadlines for new Russian aggression outside Ukraine are becoming more and more obvious," the Ukrainian leader claimed.
Zelensky said that in order for Kiev to repel the Russian invaders, its forces need help from the West to strengthen their military capabilities in the air.
"We must win air superiority for Ukraine," Zelensky stressed.
"The partners know what is needed and in what quantity," he said, adding: "This will allow progress on land."/BGNES