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The president of Finland, Alexander Stubb, and his counterpart from Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani, rejected on Wednesday the American proposal that kyiv gives parts of their territory to Russia to reach peace and affirmed that the sovereignty and integrity of Ukraine are not negotiable. As Stubb explained in a joint press conference, an eventual peace agreement between kyiv and Moscow should respect the three key principles of any state, which are independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity. “From the beginning of the war I have said that there are some key principles that are not negotiable and, of course, one of them is sovereignty, so I firmly believe that, in the long term, Ukraine must be entitled, as a sovereign state, to decide to which organization wants to belong to,” said Stubb. The Finnish president made a parallel between the current situation in Ukraine and the two wars that his country fought against the Soviet Union after being invaded by Stalin’s troops, a conflict in which Finland managed to keep his independence, but lost his sovereignty and 10 % of his territory. “Our approach is very simple: we stick to international standards and those norms have not changed in any aspect. Russia has violated them and Russia must end this war. The situation is difficult, but we are not in a dead end,” Stubb said.