Czech President Milos Zeman. File photoPRAGUE, May 26.The Czech Republic and Switzerland hope that the conflict in Ukraine will be resolved not by a «rotten compromise» but by a victory for Ukraine, Czech President Milos Zeman said on Thursday after talks in Prague with Swiss President Ignazio Cassis. «, the situation in Ukraine. Our positions in this are similar. Both the Czech Republic and Switzerland hope that the conflict in Ukraine will be resolved not by a rotten compromise, but by Ukraine's victory,» Zeman said at a briefing after the talks. 
NYT called Ukraine's victory over Russia unrealistic In turn, Cassis noted that Switzerland «condemned» Russia's actions in Ukraine in the sharpest way and supported all EU anti-Russian sanctions. Both presidents announced that their countries would continue to provide humanitarian assistance to the citizens of Ukraine, in particular, to those numerous Ukrainian refugees, mainly women and children, who came to their countries after February 24. Zeman and Kassis praised the trade and economic relations between both countries and noted that there is an opportunity to expand them through cooperation in the scientific sphere. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
