In peace negotiations with Russia, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky plans to propose to exchange part of the Kursk region, which is controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, for part of the annexed Russian Federation of Ukrainian territory.
The president said about this in an interview with The Guardian.
“We will exchange one territory for another,” Zelensky said, noting that he does not know what part of the Ukrainian territory annexed by Russia will ask for in return.
“I do not know, we’ll see. But all our territories are important, there is no priority,” he added.
According to the President of Ukraine, he is ready for negotiations with Russia, but wants Ukraine to act on them from a position of power.
The Ukrainian leader was building up that he would offer American companies contracts for restoration and investment benefits. Thus, he will try to persuade Donald Trump to his side, who seeks to end the Russian-Ukrainian war, the newspaper writes.
Zelensky also criticized proposals that only European countries are provided with security guarantees to Ukraine.
“There are voices that say that Europe could offer security guarantees without Americans, and I always say no. Safety guarantees without the United States are fake security guarantees,” Vladimir Zelensky emphasized.
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Commenting on the idea of French President Emmanuel Macron on sending peacekeepers from Europe to Ukraine, the president noted that such a mission will work if it is expanded on a wide scale.
“We are for a peacekeeping contingent, if it is part of a security guarantee, and I emphasize once again that this is not possible without the United States,” the President of Ukraine summed up.
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– The answer of the Russian Foreign Ministry
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova offered to the words of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky about the possible exchange of territories with Russia to resolve the Ukrainian conflict.
“In the Kursk region, the Earth waits for the neo -Nazis waits there without any exchange of about two meters and a half or two meters. Similar statements by Zelensky make to hide the true scale of the disaster for the Armed Forces in this direction,” said the diplomat.