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Zelensky rejects any territorial compromise:
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The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected all the sale of territories to Russia on Saturday to obtain peace. Consequently, before the summit announced between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, who makes kyiv fear an agreement at his expense. However, – Zelensky rejects any territorial compromise
(Keystone-ATS) Russian and American presidents must meet on August 15 in Alaska, the United States, as part of Mr. Furthermore, Trump’s efforts to find a way out of the conflict that Russia sparked in February 2022.
The United States zelensky rejects any territorial compromise does not recognize the International Criminal Court (ICC). Similarly, which issued an arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin due to the “illegal” transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia, the latter is not afraid of being arrested in this territory of the extreme northwest of the American continent, bought in 1867 from Russia.
This eagerly awaited meeting will take place without Volodymyr Zelensky, who continues to demand to be involved.
“Any decision that would be made against us. Therefore, any decision that would be made without Ukraine, would be a decision against peace,” said Zelensky on social networks, adding that “the Ukrainians will not abandon their land to the occupants”.
The Russian army currently controls approximately 20% of the Ukrainian territory.
Meeting in London
During a telephone conversation with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Saturday. However, Volodymyr Zelensky also urged his European allies to take “clear measures” to define a common approach, while the latter zelensky rejects any territorial compromise are also dismissed from talks.
French president Emmanuel Macron. after also maintaining himself on Saturday on the phone with his Ukrainian counterpart, hammered that “the future of Ukraine” could not “decide without the Ukrainians”. “Europeans will also necessarily be part of the solution because it is their security,” he wrote on X.
“We must remain united,” added the head of the Spanish government Pedro Sanchez, who also spoke to Mr. Zelensky.
In this context. the British Foreign Minister David Lammy met on Saturday in London the American vice-president JD Vance, the head of the presidential administration Ukrainiene Andriï Iermak and the former Minister of the Ukrainian Defense Roustem Oumerov, as well as the European national security advisers.
The Russian head of state has on this occasion “shared information on current discussions with the United States. on recent efforts with a view to peace between Russia and Ukraine”.
These were invited to “discuss the next stages zelensky rejects any territorial compromise towards peace in Ukraine. ” Lammy wrote on X, adding that “the support of the United Kingdom to Ukraine remains unwavering” and that he “continues to work for just and lasting peace”.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva has also “reaffirmed the availability of his government to make any necessary contribution” to a “peaceful solution”. in a telephone exchange on Saturday with Vladimir Putin, according to a press release from the Brazilian presidency.
“It’s complicated”
A settlement of the conflict will include exchanges of territories for the benefit of each. ”said Donald Trump on Friday, without giving more details.
“We are talking about a territory on which fights have been raging for over three and a half years (…), it’s complicated,” he said in the White House.
The American president. who has repeatedly promised to put an end to the war in Ukraine, has spoke several times on the phone with his Russian zelensky rejects any territorial compromise counterpart in recent months but has not yet seen him in person since his return to business on January 20.
The tête-à-tête announced will be the first between the two men since June 2019 in Japan. a year after a summit in Helsinki where Mr. Trump had a resolutely conciliatory tone with Mr. Putin.
The latter has not trained American soil since 2015, the chairmanship of Barack Obama.
Currently. Moscow claims that Ukraine gives him four partially occupied regions (Donetsk, Lougansk, Zaporijjia and Kherson), in addition to the Crimea annexed in 2014, and that it renounces Western arms deliveries and any membership in NATO.
Unacceptable requirements for kyiv. who wants the withdrawal of Russian troops from its territory and Western security guarantees, including the pursuit of arms deliveries and the deployment of a European contingent, to which Russia is opposed.
After more than three years of fighting, the Ukrainian and Russian positions are still irreconcilable. zelensky rejects any territorial compromise On the ground. the confrontations and deadly strikes continue and the Russian army continues to advance in the East against a less numerous and less well equipped opponent.
On Saturday. the Russian Defense Ministry claimed to take the locality of iablonivka in the industrial and mining region of Donetsk (east), where most of the fights is concentrated.
The Russian forces. which have accelerated their progress in recent months, are currently threatening two Ukrainian strong places in Donbass, Kostiantynivka and Pokrovsk, as well as the strategic city of Koupiansk, in the Kharkiv region.
Zelensky rejects any territorial compromise
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