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.”
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.