Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a press conference after talks with French President Emmanuel Macron in Kiev. February 8, 2022KYIV, February 8President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky switched to Russian, commenting on the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin «like it — don't like it, be patient, my beauty», noting: of course, there are things that you can't argue with — Ukraine is really a beauty, and the appeal «mine is too much «Earlier, press secretary Dmitry Peskov explained Putin's words «like it, don't like it — be patient, my beauty,» said in relation to Kiev and the Minsk agreements during a press conference following negotiations with French President Emmanuel Macron, according to Peskov, the head of state meant that Ukraine needed to fulfill the agreements. «I will probably answer in Russian so that the author of the aphorism understands my answer. Of course, there are things that you cannot argue with the President of the Russian Federation: Ukraine is really beautiful, but about what he says about Ukraine is mine, it seems to me that this is already too much,» Zelensky said at a joint briefing on Tuesday. After that, he turned to Macron and asked: “By the way, didn’t you sit and rest after dinner yesterday?” According to him, as for “be patient, my beauty,” Ukraine is already very patient, because “this is wisdom escalation depends on this patience.» «This is important not only for Ukraine, but also for all of Europe, and for all Russians, because escalation depends on our patience, escalation from the other side. We are defending our country, we are on our territory, our patience affects provocations when we we do not respond to provocations, but behave very dignified. Therefore, it seems to me that there is wisdom in patience,» the President of Ukraine said. Moscow categorically denies the plans attributed to Russia to escalate the situation around Ukraine and such statements are being used as an excuse to deploy more NATO military equipment near Russian borders. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier, Russia does not create any pretexts for a conflict situation around Ukraine. According to him, Russia does not rule out that the hysteria around Ukraine, hyped by the West, is aimed at covering Kiev's line of sabotaging the Minsk agreements on Donbass. According to the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, the US and NATO information hysteria over Ukraine is generously framed by lies and fakes. What Putin explained to Macron for almost six hours
