Summary

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that Russia must withdraw to its pre-invasion positions from February 24, 2022.

In an interview with Newsmax, he hoped that Donald Trump, with European backing, could end the war and influence Putin.

Zelenskyy emphasized that Ukraine will not accept any negotiated settlement that excludes its involvement.

He also suggested that Trump needs a diplomatic success to differentiate his approach from Biden’s. However, there is no indication that Russia is willing to retreat.

    • PugJesus@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      Unfortunately unlikely, considering American support is now in the hands of Putin’s puppet.

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        I don’t think that Russia would be giving up Crimea in any case, regardless of who’s in the Whitehouse. The Donbas is a different question, they probably would’ve been prepared to give them back in whole or in part in negotiations, but I don’t think Crimea would’ve ever been up for negotiations.

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          In pre-2022 positions, Crimea could be strangled; it’s difficult to supply. Unfortunately, 2022 borders are only likely to be restored by negotiation, with US help unlikely, and not military success.

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          this was was always going to end with Russia taking a large chunk of Ukraine. there was some collective delusion for a while that it wasn’t because of strong state war propaganda

          but Russia is always going to care more about Ukraine than the US. It’s their neighbor who they have more or less controlled directly or indirectly for hundreds of years.

          US support was always limited and self-interested. Just like every time US hypes up some international ally to inevitably discard them. Remember the Kurds? I’m guessing Taiwan is the next one going forward

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            Yeah, all of those “disgruntled citizens” starting a coup in eastern Ukraine with russian equipment were later confirmed to be Russian mercenaries.

            In the end it all comes down to this: Russia will attack any country that was allied with them, but now wants to move away from that.

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          May also be fastest action I’ve seen from the mods here. What 9m after posting?

          and in before they add an explicit no propaganda rule that is only used to remove non usa approved propaganda

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            Pretty easy to be quick when we’ve seen that bullshit lie posted more times than I can count.

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                Factually true, looks like the turnaround time is about 1-3 hours. I guess we don’t have the data on submitted reports - that’d be a fun thing to add to the modlog for transparency purposes.

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          3 days ago

          I’m a lone voice crying out in the wilderness.

          Edit: And to think Boris Johnson told Zelensky not to accept a peace agreement in 2022 when Russia was willing to let Zelensky sit at the table. Now the Ukrainians don’t even get to attend the peace talks, no doubt because the Russians know that it’s the British and the Americans who give Zelensky his orders. Blame whoever you want, the Ukrainians really did it to themselves.

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            It would be nice if that was true because in that case nobody could hear your bullshit

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            I wish.

            We would much prefer you walk into the woods and scream where nobody can hear you.