Zelensky: America is pressuring Ukraine to cede territory while offering no guarantees

Zelensky's statement to journalists - from UNIAN, Aug. 12 but could be today as well:

"Of course, I'd like to see America's position given how it all began: our territory was occupied, Ukrainians were being killed, and then they told me, "To stop them from killing you again, you need to leave." But what security guarantees? Withdraw from Donetsk Oblast? What's the compromise? Will we join NATO? The EU? I haven't heard anything—simply not a single proposal—that would guarantee that a new war won't start tomorrow and Putin won't try to occupy Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, or Kharkiv. He's already started two wars under different American presidents. What's to stop him from starting a third?

The Russian Federation is the largest territory in the world. So, it's not a territorial issue. What is Putin doing? He wants to occupy our country, not for territorial reasons. He doesn't want a sovereign Ukraine. And if kilometers aren't the issue, then what's the point of withdrawing from the nine thousand square kilometers of Donetsk that we currently control? Is it simply to help him prepare a new military operation? That means we need security guarantees that will, first and foremost, preserve our state, our sovereign state, our independence.

These questions need to be answered by those making the decisions, and then it will be easier. Then the conditions Putin sets will be perceived differently.  For example, I perceive them differently. He wrote Ukrainian land into his Constitution: so what? He wrote the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions into his Constitution. So, he will continue? No, he says he won't continue. What do you mean, 'he says'? And why won't he? And who's standing there? What fence? 'America, will you stand here, will your bases be here?' 'No,' the 'Russians' say, 'there can't be bases there.' It can't? So, are you afraid of American bases? Afraid the Americans will attack? 'The Russians say, 'No, we're not afraid of that.' Oh, you're not afraid? You just want to attack and don't want the Americans there? 'Yes.' What are we talking about?"