Zelenskyy Says Ukraine Cannot Retake Territory From Russia

Of course, this is all your fault for not giving Ukraine all they wanted, except for the hundreds of billions in arms, weapons, and straight up cash. Strangely, I’m not seeing this in US Credentialed Media outlets, just Politico Europe

Ukraine lacks might to retake occupied territories, Zelenskyy concedes

Ukraine currently doesn’t have the military strength to retake all the territory Russia has occupied since 2014, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told French daily Le Parisien on Wednesday.

But that doesn’t mean Kyiv is about to recognize its Moscow-controlled lands as belonging to Russia, he added.

“Legally, we cannot give up our territories. This is prohibited by the constitution. But let’s not use such big words. Russia actually controls part of our territory today,” Zelenskyy said in response to a question as to how far Kyiv is prepared to compromise to end the war following Moscow’s February 2022 full-scale invasion.

“If today we don’t have the strength to win back all of our territory, maybe the West will find the strength to put Putin in his place … at the [negotiating] table and diplomatically deal with this war,” he added, while again lamenting that Ukraine would be in a different situation today had the West given Kyiv all it asked for earlier in the war.

Yeah, sorry Vol, the US will not be getting in a shooting war with Russia over Ukraine, especially with how you have all those neo-Nazis, cancelled elections, go after Christian churches, tons of graft, and, really, it’s a shady nation that means little to US security. And, what else did you want us to give you? What weapons would have let you do anything?

On the other hand, Zelenskyy said, Ukraine will never recognize its occupied territories as Russian. “This is not about compromise. This means he [Putin] will get away with everything again. This is impossible.”

Yeah, well, that’s nice, but, unless Biden is interested in starting WWIII with a month left, maybe it’s time to settle before you lose it all.

That said, is Putin willing to deal with Trump to end the conflict? The one that would have never started if Biden hadn’t been so weak?

Putin says Russia is ready to compromise with Trump on Ukraine war

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he was ready to compromise over Ukraine in possible talks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on ending the war and had no conditions for starting talks with the Ukrainian authorities.

Trump, a self-styled master of brokering agreements and author of the 1987 book “Trump: the Art of the Deal”, has vowed to swiftly end the conflict, but has not yet given any details on how he might achieve that.

“We have always said that we are ready for negotiations and compromises,” Putin said, after saying that Russian forces, advancing across the entire front, were moving towards achieving their primary goals in Ukraine.

“Soon, those Ukrainians who want to fight will run out, in my opinion, soon there will be no one left who wants to fight. We are ready, but the other side needs to be ready for both negotiations and compromises.”

I guess we’ll see. An end to the war will make many upset, especially those in Congress, both D and R, who are making a lot off the war.

The post Zelenskyy Says Ukraine Cannot Retake Territory From Russia appeared first on Pirate’s Cove.