Volodymyr Zelensky, in the next phase of talks to end the war in Ukraine, intends to draw a red line at the most contentious issue on the table: the Russian demand for Ukraine’s sovereign territory. As long as he remains the nation’s president, Zelensky will not agree to give up land in exchange for peace, Ukraine’s chief negotiator, Andriy Yermak, told me today in an exclusive interview.
“Not a single sane person today would sign a document to give up territory,” said Yermak, who has served as Zelensky’s chief of staff, lead negotiator, and closest aide throughout the full-scale war with Russia.
“As long as Zelensky is president, no one should count on us giving up territory. He will not sign away territory,” he told me by telephone from Kyiv. “The constitution prohibits this. Nobody can do that unless they want to go against the Ukrainian constitution and the Ukrainian people.”
Neither side has any interest in the well-being and prosperity of the people living in those regions, I just want the war to stop. Same position I’ve held since 2022 when the lines were mostly where they are, and the peace deal was mostly where it is, but millions were still in their homes and hundreds of thousands still alive.
The war ends when Russia respects Ukraine’s original post USSR fracturing boarders agreement because Ukraine had something like 80% of the USSR’s nukes. You want the war to end. STFU.
Russia will never agree to that, so you’re just advocating every last Ukrainian be sent to die in a meat grinder? Maybe if you send the Poles, Germans, and French to die too, Russia will run out of manpower and then you can have your borders.
Lol what do you mean? Russia already agreed to that back in the 90s. They are breaking their promises now. What makes you think they’ll honor any new agreement? It’s completely nonsensical. You know Putin wants all of Ukraine as a buffer region, and is still going off USSR brain.
From 1990 to 2014, Ukraine was a bufferzone/Russian puppet. After 2014, it became a US puppet.
Russia assumed:
they could restore the previous status quo in about 2 weeks, by driving directly to Kiev, in a straight line (lmao)
An EU-alligned Ukraine would eventually join NATO, putting hostile troops like 100 miles from Moscow.
The calculus will look very different after
the war showed their military and economy are still weaker than they were in 1990
There is not a hostile state about to be backed by NATO right on their border.
You’ve got to be part of a GOP or Russia troll farm. Done wasting my time.