Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger called on the West and Kyiv in the course of possible future negotiations with Moscow not to concede the territories captured by Russia after the start of a full -scale war. He stated this in an interview with ZDF. Kissinger’s statements gives Deuteche Vella.
“In the current situation, the leaders of democracies should clearly understand what they are ready to negotiate, and what they are not ready to refuse under any circumstances,” said Kissinger.
According to him, negotiations can only go with “complete cooperation” with the victims of aggression – the leadership and the people of Ukraine. Kissenger called this approach “the only conceivable basis for managing the situation.”
“The surrender of the Ukrainian territory cannot be a condition that we can accept,” the former Secretary of State emphasized. “The fact is that Russia will have to return all the territories it from the beginning of the war,” he said.
In May, speaking at the forum in Davos, Kissinger said that the dividing line in negotiations between Ukraine and Russia should become a “return to the previous status quo”. Many media and politicians interpreted these words as a call to Kyiv to abandon part of their territories in order to achieve peace. In early July, Kissenger specified his words in an interview with Time, explaining that he did not urge Ukraine to give its territories. “If you read what I really said, I never said this. I said that the best dividing line for the ceasefire is the status quo. That is, you should not wage war on the territories that were Ukrainian before the start of the war, against Territories that were at that time were Russian, ”Kissinger explained. The former US Secretary of State was half -drawing that “did not say that the territory should be given. I just meant that it should have a separate status in any negotiations. I am unconditionally for the freedom of Ukraine and its significant role in Europe.”