“If right now we don’t have the energy to win again all of our territory, perhaps the West will discover the energy to place Putin in his place … on the [negotiating] desk and diplomatically cope with this warfare,” he added, whereas once more lamenting that Ukraine can be in a special scenario right now had the West given Kyiv all it requested for earlier within the warfare.
On the opposite hand, Zelenskyy stated, Ukraine won’t ever acknowledge its occupied territories as Russian. “This is just not about compromise. This means he [Putin] will get away with all the things once more. This is unimaginable.”
Russia at the moment occupies some 18 p.c of Ukrainian territory (111,677 sq. kilometers), together with Crimea and components of the Donbas space in jap Ukraine that the Kremlin has occupied since 2014, based on Ukrainian monitoring challenge DeepState.
Since 2022, Ukraine has liberated 42,000 sq. kilometers of occupied land, however little since 2023. A summer season offensive this yr noticed Russian troops advance quickly within the Donetsk area, stage a return to the Kharkiv area, and mount assaults in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin illegally claimed title to 4 areas in Ukraine (Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson) following sham referendums in 2022, although Kremlin troops don’t totally management the areas right now.
Putin has additionally warned Kyiv that it should withdraw from all 4 areas if it desires to begin talks to finish the warfare.
