May 31, 2022
The comedian who played the President of Ukraine on TV and then was voted by the people to become the official President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, rejected outright any proposal to negotiate for peaceful settlement that would include ceding land to Russia to end the months long conflict.
“No one is going to trade a gram of our sovereignty or a millimeter of our territory,” Zelensky said in a video. “Our children are dying, soldiers are being blown apart by shells, and they tell us to sacrifice territory. Get lost. It’s never going to happen.”
Last week, Italy’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Luigi Di Maio, proposed to the United Nations a four-point peace plan to end fighting. Russia said it did not see the Italian plan, but rejected the plan as a “fantasy,” because the West continues to pour weapons into the country.
“You can’t supply Ukraine with weapons with one hand and come up with plans for a peaceful resolution of the situation with the other,” Maria Zakharova, Russia’s foreign ministry spokeswoman, said at her weekly briefing.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the Italian proposal included autonomy for Ukraine’s Crimea and Donbas.
Henry Kissinger, the former secretary of state, also said last week that Zelensky should negotiate for a peaceful resolution and prevent thousands more from dying needlessly.
“Negotiations need to begin in the next two months before it creates upheavals and tensions that will not be easily overcome,” Kissinger told the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. “Ideally, the dividing line should be a return to the status quo ante.”
The 98-year-old said pursuing the war “beyond that point would not be about the freedom of Ukraine, but a new war against Russia itself.”
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