Zelensky Russian troops: If you surrender, we will treat you as people are supposed to be treated.

During the night, Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, published another video message expressing a careful note of continued peace talks with Russia.

He claimed Russia had begun to realise that victory would not come on the battlefield.

The 19th Day of Our Resistance has ended. The historic war. Another difficult day, which is still approaching our victory. Peace for Ukraine approaches. As before, the enemy is confused. They did not expect such resistance. They believed in their propaganda, which has lied about us for decades. They still don't remember themselves. But they are already beginning to realize that they will achieve nothing with war. Their soldiers know that. Their officers are aware of that. They leave the battlefield. They abandon the equipment. We take trophies and use them to protect Ukraine”, Zelensky said.

The president also addressed Russian troops directly, saying that if they turn themselves in, they will treat people as they are supposed to be treated.

And I want to tell the Russian soldiers. Those who have already entered our land. And those who will just be sent to fight us. Russian recruits! Listen to me very carefully. Russian officers! You already understand everything. You won't get anything from Ukraine. You'll get life. You're too much. But even your life will be taken away. But why should you die? For what? I know you want to survive. We hear your conversations on wiretapping, we hear what you really think about this meaningless war, this shame and your country. Your conversations with each other. Your calls home to your family. We hear everything. We draw conclusions. We know who you are. So I offer you a choice. On behalf of the Ukrainian people, I give you a chance. A chance to survive. If you surrender to our forces, we will treat you as people are supposed to be treated. As humans, with dignity. You were somehow not treated in your army. And somehow your army does not treat ours. Pick it up!

Zelensky also expressed his gratitude for the woman who ran into a Russian news show on the evening at Channel 1 controlled by the state with a sign against the war.

In 19 days, the Russian Army has lost more in Ukraine than in two bloody and multi-year-old wars in Chechnya. For what? I'm grateful to those Russians who don't stop trying to convey the truth. For those who fight deinformation and speak the truth, real facts about their friends and loved ones. And personally the woman who entered Channel One study with a anti-war poster. For those not afraid to protest. As long as your country is not completely shut up from around the world, returning to a very large North Korea, you must fight. You should not miss your chance”, he said among other things.

As we reported earlier, she was named Marina Ovsynnikova, an editor in the channel.