Ukrainian officials have strongly rebuked suggestions that Kyiv should recognize Crimea as Russian territory and accept separatist control over the Donbas region as a way to end the war.
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger made the suggestion at the World Economic Forum earlier this week and urged that negotiations should start soon. Responding to Kissinger, Zelensky likened his ideas to negotiating with Hitler in Munich before the start of World War II.
“Mr. Kissinger has emerged from the deep past and said that part of Ukraine should be given to Russia to avoid the alienation of Russia from Europe,” Zelensky said in a Wednesday night address.
“It seems that Mr. Kissinger has 1938 on the calendar instead of 2022 and he thought that he was addressing the audience in Munich of those times, instead of the audience in Davos,” he added.
The editorial board of The New York Times made a similar suggestion to Kissinger’s in an article last week. The board wrote: “A decisive military victory for Ukraine over Russia, in which Ukraine regains all the territory Russia has seized since 2014, is not a realistic goal.”
Zelensky again compared the board’s view to negotiating with Hitler in Munich. “Symptomatic editorials have also emerged in some Western media saying that Ukraine must accept so-called difficult compromises by ceding its territory in exchange for peace. Perhaps, The New York Times wrote something similar in 1938. But let me remind you that now is still the year 2022,” he said.
Oleksiy Arestovych, a YouTuber and advisor to Zelensky, delivered an expletive-filled tirade against those calling for Ukraine to negotiate and cede territory. “Go f**k yourselves with such proposals, you dumb f**ks, to trade Ukrainian territory a little bit! Are you f**king crazy? Our children are dying, soldiers are stopping shells with their own bodies, and they are telling us how to sacrifice our territories. This will never happen,” he said, according to RT.
As the war drags on, Russia is slowly making gains in the east, and Ukraine is losing leverage for potential peace talks. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Thursday that the situation in the Donbas is very bad for Ukraine’s forces and urged the West to send more weapons.
I blast Ukraine for suggesting I cede weapons for war. That zealot will always be mad at the west for not doing more no matter how much destruction, economic collapse and conflict we fuel. Ukraine can never get back what their hubris has cost them.
Ukraine blasts? Blasts what?
In a few years time Ukraine will be a part of Russia. Unless of course a nuclear armageddone Don’t challenge history
I don’t think Russia wants all of Ukraine. They’re more than happy to let Poland and others have the non-Russian areas.
No reason to disagree
Blast all you want… Conceding or not, the territories are already taken…!
At this point Ukraine is guaranteed to lose 4 oblasts:
Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia.
If these idiots don’t pull their heads out of their asses, Kharkov and Odessa will soon fall too.
Yeah, the deal that is on offer today won’t necessarily be on offer tomorrow. If Russia pays with blood and money for more oblasts, it is going to be unlikely to ever give them back at the negotiating table.
Right now, I think Russia would settle for the four oblasts you mentioned, which it already pretty much controls (plus Crimea and Sevastopol, obviously) and demilitarization, neutralization, and at least some de nazification of the remaining Ukraine. Ukraine gets to keep Kharkov and its Black Sea coast, and only loses majority Russian-speaking areas. Most of all, Ukraine would get an end to the killing and the destruction. And an end to the bleeding border. A de jure settlement that ends the half-war of the Donbas and Crimea that has been going on for 8 years, and ends the Special Military Operation.
Zelensky’s obsession with taking back the areas that seceded from Ukraine following the Euromaidan coup is as much to blame for this war as anything else. But he cannot admit that without losing support from the global community.
I’m convinced that if a majority of citizens in Europe and the US had understood the severity of Ukraine’s deadly obsession with controlling its ethnic Russian populations, western leaders would have been compelled to support Minsk II, and this war would not have occurred.
Russia’s gains on the ground are expected to lock in Putin’s demands for the Donbas region. Zelensky says he won’t give up anything. But his actions this week suggest that he is now seeking to use negotiations as a way to prevent ๐๐ช๐ง๐ฉ๐๐๐ง encroachment. I suspect that notion is too little and too late.
What f*cking arrogance on ZelBoyโs part. He wants victory by begging for OUR tax dollars.
Zelensky has already lost most of the areas he refuses to give up. The moron does not control much in East Ukraine and soon Russia will occupy Odessa also.
Zelensky and his fascist henchmen need to have their stolen $Billions confiscated to rebuild Eastern Ukraine.
After that maybe he can get a job hosting drag queen events in Hollywood.