There will be no territorial concessions in Ukraine, the Ukrainian president said, answering Euronews’ question on whether Kyiv is now being pressured into territorial concessions. There will be “no territorial concessions” made to Russia as part of future peace negotiations, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Euronews as he arrived for the EU summit in Brussels on Thursday.
Zelenskyy’s “no” came the morning after the EU and the US imposed new sanctions on Russia for Moscow’s refusal to reach a ceasefire in its all-out war against its neighbour.
The Kremlin said its demands have not changed, meaning Moscow wants to keep control over Crimea and four other regions of Ukraine, which Russian forces do not control entirely.
US outlets reported earlier this week that Putin made a new offer to Trump under which Ukraine would surrender the parts of the eastern Donbas region under its control in exchange for some smaller parts of the two southern frontline regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.