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.”
Nobody wants to accept that the celebrity comedian placeholder candidate who won on a generic protest vote years before the war started isn’t this generation’s Nelson Mandela.
I’m beginning to understand how the Ukrainians have lost to an army as incompetent and corrupt as the Russians.
Ohh you just took the crown for stupidest comment I’ve read today
Zelenskyy is a hero, the Churchill of our time. Your boss Pootang is a greedy, theiving, cowardly midget with a tiny penis, Boris.
Churchill? The guy who killed 4.2 million of Indians via famine? Who proclaimed fascism the antidote to the poison of communism?
I like Zelenskyy less than most billionaires, but I wouldn’t compare him to a genocidal ghoul like Churchill.
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The slow walking of Military Aid under Biden and the disruption of aid under Trump are the main reasons the Ukrainians haven’t done better. Most people are amazed they did as well against the Russian’s as they have.