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Posted on 05/20/2025 1:54:42 PM PDT by bimboeruption
Kyiv will not meet Vladimir Putin's request for Ukraine to withdraw troops from its four partially occupied regions, Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
The Ukrainian leader said "it's our land," in a briefing to reporters on Monday, according to The Kyiv Independent on the day when the Russian president and U.S. President Donald Trump held a much-touted phone call.
Yuriy Boyechko, CEO of humanitarian group Hope for Ukraine, told Newsweek Putin's ceasefire demands, which include Ukrainian forces leaving all of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, were "impossible to meet."
Newsweek has contacted the Kremlin for comment.
Why It Matters
In September 2022, Moscow claimed to have annexed the four Ukrainian regions and to this day it does not fully control them. Putin illegally annexed Crimea in 2014. Kyiv has repeatedly rejected any suggestion it would surrender the regions.
Zelensky's comment Monday reiterates what Kyiv considers untenable as Putin has not shifted from his maximalist goals. It shows a deal is far off despite Trump's optimism following his two-hour phone call with the Russian president.
What To Know
Trump and Putin held a phone call on Monday with the U.S. president saying he had agreed with his Russian counterpart that Moscow and Kyiv would immediately begin bilateral negotiations about both a ceasefire and a peace agreement.
Trump also said that he called Zelensky, and the leaders of Kyiv's European allies, suggesting that the Vatican could be a venue for talks.
Putin told journalists he and Trump agreed Russia would present Ukraine with a "memorandum" detailing conditions and timing for a future peace treaty.
This reiterates Kremlin rhetoric about eliminating the war's "root causes," which would include the current Ukrainian government being swapped with a Russian proxy and a declawing of its military.
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The pissing contest between Zelensky and Putin is never going to end.
Spend your time and energy on America's problems, President Trump. We need you.
Europe wants no part of this. I don’t think they have the stones to stand up to Putin. Not in any real sense, anyway.
Zelenski is projecting. Putin wants to keep what he has won, Zelenski thinks he is getting back what he lost. Thats not the way war works.
That guy’s not really working for the Ukraine. He works for the Germans and their allies.
Percentage of the four regions Russia controls As of April 30th
And Russia is gaining more everyday
Luhansk Oblast: 99.292%
Zaporizhzhia Oblast: 73.016%
Donetsk Oblast: 70.709%
Kherson Oblast: 69.137%
Time to let Vlad send the Ukraine back to the stone ages.
Zelensky’s puppet masters in Zurich want their war.
> The Ukrainian leader said “it’s our land,” … <
Well, he’s right. But it doesn’t matter. It’s none of our business. Let the EU sort it out as best they can.
Three word response:
“not for long”...
Trump responds to question on Zelensky’s demand for US sanctions on Russia
‘I determine that’ he makes clear
I hope Trump realizes that his most successful Russia policies were when he was implementing policies that killed Russian soldiers in combat.
His first term gained much more cooperation from Putin when he killed Russian soldiers in places such as Syria. Killing Russian soldiers is a language Putin understands and the Neo-iso’s fret too much about. It was Trump who provided the lethal aid of javelin missiles to Ukraine. That will bring about a more “Reasonable” Putin.
Use. Your. Money.
This little green punk Zelensky must have a Hitler Bunker where he spends 95% of his time-probably no where near the war. I’m surprised no one has ended his ego trip by now.
There’s only a few ways this war ends. Most require “non-elected” leaders to be dead.
“Spend your time and energy on America’s problems, President Trump.”
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Agree. He has less than four years to focus on fixing this country’s problems. Well, actually less time in terms of his political capital owing to the eventual attention shift to 2026. Ukraine is likely to be a long term time consuming intractable problem. People will vote LARGELY on the basis of what he and his party do/accomplish right here in the USA.
A lot of countries could say that about a lot of territory that used to be theirs but was conquered and now belongs to the winners. In fact, most of planet Earth at one time or another.
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