Posted on 11/28/2025 7:00:07 AM PST by dennisw
In an interview with The Atlantic, Andriy Yermak, President Zelensky's chief of staff, who helped negotiate the updated proposal, reiterated that position: 'Not a single sane person today would sign a document to give up territory.
'As long as Zelensky is president, no one should count on us giving up territory. He will not sign away territory. The constitution prohibits this. Nobody can do that unless they want to go against the Ukrainian constitution and the Ukrainian people.'
Donald Trump is said to be preparing to recognise Russian control over Crimea and other occupied Ukrainian territories in a bid to secure a deal with Vladimir Putin to end the war.
According to The Telegraph, officials close to the talks say the US president has dispatched his peace envoy, Steve Witkoff, along with his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to set out the proposal to Putin in Moscow.
The move would mark the most dramatic shift in US policy toward the conflict since Russia seized Crimea in 2014, and risks a major split with European governments that have repeatedly rejected any peace plans involving territorial concessions.
One official briefed on Witkoff and Kushner's approach told the publication: 'It's increasingly clear the Americans don't care about the European position. They say the Europeans can do whatever they want.'
Yesterday, Russia's leader signalled that recognition of the Kremlin's territorial claims would be a key demand in any negotiations over Trump's peace initiative.
He said Washington's acceptance of Russia's sovereignty over Crimea, as well as the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, would form part of the core issues in talks.
On Friday, the Kremlin confirmed it had received an amended US proposal following urgent discussions between Ukrainian and American officials in Geneva last weekend.
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Not Odessa. That would be a final nail in Ukraine’s coffin as a viable economy.
Just stop the damn war.
And "Z"... you know that stopping the war is an automation "election"...and you know already that you will not run.
Ukraine has a massive drone and missile offense for Moscow. Starting on Jan1 when the temps get coldest. To knock out power and heating there. Ukraine will not move on Trumps peace proposal until the Moscow dust has settled.
Trump can want want want, but he will have to wait. Putin breaks every treaty anyway. His signature means nothing on a Trump peace doc.
It’s up to Ukraine to negotiate for its future.
The US government can advise in private, but the decisions are Zelensky’s & Ukraine’s to make.
Won’t work, for the simple reason that Putin wants *all* of Ukraine (and more), so won’t agree to *any* peace deal. You can’t make bargains with such aggressors.
Hitler was much the same way with the British. Every time they offered for Germany to keep some of the territories and nations they conquered, they would refuse and expand their demands to new areas.
Bottom line: Putin wants the entire Soviet Union reassembled, and likely expanded with the former Warsaw Pact nations, into a “greater Russia”.
As part of any deal, Trump should ask Putin to dump Maduro.
But we are not at war with Russia.
God bless Trump for feeling the need to end this war (given how deeply the US deep-state and Fed.gov were involved prior to him), but he should not feel responsible to pull the two sides together - especially when Davos/London/Brussels want to keep the war going.
Kiev is supposedly destroying the equipment at Russian port facilities that function to load oil and LNG onto ships/tankers.
It’s becoming harder and harder for Putin to make money.
Makes one wonder whether time is actually on Ukraine’s side (quickly devastate Russia’s finances), and not Russia’s (slowly conquer Ukie territory).
When Putin is finish with Ukraine he’ll invade another country
“Ukraine has a massive drone and missile offense for Moscow. Starting on Jan1 when the temps get coldest. To knock out power and heating there.”
Citation? Reference?
Andriy Yermak is the same guy who just had his home raided by Ukraine’s anti-corruption police. He may be the last Soros holdout and the raid may indicate Z is on board with Trump.
Seems like the most sensible outcome. Russia gets the ethnic Russian provinces and the Crimea. Then we can close the book on this stupid slavic border dispute.
Nice “Heads I win Tails you lose” you got there.
Irrelevant.
Pure evil, imo.
May it come back to bite him!
May it be
May it be so!
So Russia is automatically the bad guy always? Why, because the MIC and the Neo-con hive-mind controlled media told you so? What a pack of drooling idiots on this thread.
Odessa was near the top of the objectives Russia had right from the beginning. If the Ukes keep it that is a big win. It is time to ignore the neocons and the EU a-holes, get real and end the killing.
What about Belarus, the Russians can take it over anytime.
Lukashenko throws Putin just enough bones to keep him out, but when happens if Lukashenko is overthrown?
My long term concern about Russia is Kaliningrad. Eastern European countries should form their own defense/economic bloc and buy it.
Maybe if so many fighting-age Ukrainian men didn’t flee for Poland, I would support Ukraine more.
I agree, it’s time to end the killing, and for Ukrainians abroad to return home.
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