21 Nov, 2024 07:45
Ukrainian FM rules out conceding territory
Andrey Sibiga has ruled out giving up on territorial demands, despite the Ukrainian leader admitting that Kiev cannot return Crimea by force
Ukraine will not agree to cede any territory to Russia to end the current conflict, Foreign Minister Andrey Sibiga has said, insisting that Kiev’s only option is “peace through strength.”
His comments came after Ukrainian leader VladimirZelensky admitted that Kiev cannot retake Russia’s Crimean Peninsula by force alone.
Speaking during a hearing in the US Congress on Tuesday, Sibiga stressed that Ukraine would not “accept any initiatives that suggest compromises on our sovereignty or territorial integrity,” adding that the same goes for any peace plans developed without Kiev’s participation. “Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine,” he stated.
The minister also claimed thatKiev is opposed to any “land-for-peace deals” because they would “leave millions of people in the hands of the aggressor” while supposedly emboldening Russia for further action. “This is appeasement, not peace. Appeasement has never worked in the past and it will not work now,” Sibiga said.(The people made a choice to be ruled by Russia, Zelensky and his crew will only punish and imprison those that revolt. Crimean people are perfectly happy living there.)
His comments align with Zelensky’s recent remarks, in which he admitted thatUkraine is not capable of driving Moscow’s forces back to the 1991 borders, even if Kiev “cannot legally acknowledge any occupied territory of Ukraine as Russian.”(So they continue to kill their soldiers because of the stalemate.)
“We cannot spend dozens of thousands of our people so that they perish for the sake of Crimea coming back…we understand that Crimea can be brought back diplomatically,” he told Fox News. The peninsula voted overwhelmingly to join Russia in 2014 after a Western-backed coup in Kiev, and was followed by Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporozhye regions in 2022. (WTF, no one in the US is going to convince Russia to give up anything. The Diplomacy lie was probably said by Blinken. Zelensky and the crew are delusional!)
Sibiga headed to Washington to drum up support for Kiev amidwidespread concernin the West that US President-electDonald Trump could force Ukraine to quickly sign an unfavorable peace dealwith Russia once he takes office. Media reports have suggested that a possible plan could include Kiev dropping its NATO membership ambitions, a freeze on the conflict, the establishment of a demilitarized zone, and some sort of territorial swap. (If Congress gives them anything they should be fired.)
Officials in Moscow have said they are open to contacts over Ukraine, but have ruled out any freezing of the conflict, stressing thatall the goals of Russia’s military operation – including Ukraine’s demilitarization and denazification – must be met.
(The point of trying to keep the lost territories are not the people, its the taxes and money they will lose, if they can't sell the assets to Oligarchs. These creatures are despicable and driven by greed. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a plan inside the government to assassinate Zelensky at some point. If I never hear the word Ukraine again, would be a blessing.)
https://www.rt.com/russia/607959-ukrainian-fm-contradicts-zelensky-crimea/