- "I will continue to hold the presidency, although really, we do not think about what will come next, I am not prepared."

File photo of Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky.

Zelensky: "When the war is over I just want to see the sea and have a few beers"

The president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, assures that he is not yet ready to know what will come when the war ends, although he says that what he would like the most is "to go to the sea and drink a few beers."

In an interview in Kyiv with the American journalist David Letterman, recorded in a metro station in the Ukrainian capital, Zelenski talks about the war that his country is experiencing and the suffering of its citizens since the Russian invasion began, on the 24th of February.

When Letterman asks him about his future and the future of Ukraine, the president says that he foreseeably "Will continue to hold the presidency, although really, we are not thinking about what will come next, I am not ready" yet, he asserts.

"But I would love to go to the sea, honestly, I'm dying to see the sea and have a beer," he confesses to the Indiana journalist in the interview, broadcast on Netflix, within the series called "They need no introduction: with David Letterman and Volodymyr Zelensky".

Without Putin, there is no war

"Let's say Putin comes down with a cold and dies or accidentally falls out of a window, do you think this will continue?" Letterman asks Zelensky, referring to the invasion.

"No, there would be no war, there wouldn't be," answers the president before describing the Russian regime as authoritarian and "dangerous" because it is supported by a single person who controls absolutely everything.

During the interview, the sirens sounded warning of the possibility of a Russian bombing: "unfortunately that indicates that war is normal, and I think that war should not be something normal and it seems so to us because we are getting used to hearing the sirens" laments Zelensky.

During the meeting, the Ukrainian president confesses that the most pleasant moments of the day are when he can talk on the phone with his wife and two children who, according to him, already know almost more about the war than he himself.

The one who was a popular comedian before assuming the presidency of the country also defines himself as a "normal man" who does normal things but dedicates 24 hours a day to managing the war and his country although, he jokes, "I also like to eat".

He reiterated that the war will not end until Russia, which has become an "empty symbol" internationally, does not vacate the Ukrainian territories it has conquered: "only then will the war end," he reiterated.

It is not, therefore, a matter of "freezing the conflict, people die on the front, even if it is far from here (Kyiv), the war is everywhere and it will finish us off until the Russians" leave.

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