The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskysuggested this Friday that it could be reach a ceasefire agreement in the Ukraine war if the territory it currently controls remained “under the umbrella of the NATO“and could negotiate the return of the rest later diplomatically.
“If we want to end the ‘hot phase’ of the war, we need to put the territory of Ukraine that we have under control under the NATO umbrella. We need to do it quickly and then the rest of the (occupied) territory. can be recovered through diplomatic channels“said the Ukrainian leader in an interview with SkyNews.
Zelensky thus responded to veteran correspondent Stuart Ramsay, who asked the Ukrainian to react to information of some media outlets that said that one of the plans of the president-elect of USA, donald trumpto end the war in Ukraine it could be that Kyiv gave in to Russia the land that Moscow has annexed in exchange for joining NATO.
In this sense, Zelensky commented that no one has officially offered them “to enter NATO with only a part of Ukraine” and that to guarantee that the president of Russia, Vladimir Putinwill not return to take more Ukrainian territory was ceasefire necessary and that the Alliance “immediately” cover the part of the country under kyiv’s control.
However, he clarified: “The invitation must be extended to Ukraine under its internationally recognized borders, cannot include only part of the country. Because? Because then you would admit that Ukraine is only that part of the territory and that the other part is Russia”, something that would go against the Ukrainian Constitution.
In Zelensky’s first interview with the British media since Trump’s election victory, the Ukrainian president said that he will have to work with the new American president and his team to have “the greatest support”and confessed that in their meeting last September in New York They had a “very warm, good and constructive” conversation.
As pointed out SkyNewsit is also the first time that Zelensky hints at a ceasefire agreement that included Russian control of part of the Ukrainian territory, since throughout the entire conflict he always showed himself reluctant to give up parts of the country to Russia, including Crimea, annexed since 2014, and Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporiya, unilaterally declared Russian since September 2022.
The war in Ukraine has escalated rapidly in recent weeks, especially after the United States gave kyiv the green light to use long range missiles against military targets on Russian territory; to which Putin has recently responded with multiple attacks and the new Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missiles.