Volodimir Zelenski has remembered Donald Trump on Saturday two red lines for Ukraine. In a message through his social networks, President Ukraine has warned his American counterpart, although without citing him, that kyiv will never recognize Russian sovereignty in the occupied territories and that any.
“The answer to the territorial issue is already in the Constitution. No one will deviate from this. Ukrainians will not give their territory to the occupant,” Zelenski said in response to Trump statements on Friday. That is, Ukraine must give up part of the provinces conquered by Russia and that the Kremlin must return the control of part of these.
Ukraine is ready for real decisions that can bring peace. Any decisions that are against us, any decisions that are without Ukraine, are at the same time decisions against peace. They will not achieve anything. These are stillborn decisions. They are unworkable decisions. And we…
– Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Volodymyr Zelenskyy (@zelenskyyua)
Russia occupies 20% of the Ukraine geography: in addition to the Crimea Peninsula, annexed illegally in 2014, the province of Lugansk was also annexed by weapons in 2022, which completely controls 70% of Donetsk province, half of the province of Zaporiyia and the eastern half of the province of Jersón.
Since Trump assumed power last January, his strategy to end the war in Ukraine has consisted above all to press kyiv. The White House has insisted on numerous occasions that territorial concessions are inevitable. AND . This was made by Trump to Zelenski in his already sadly famous Trifulca last February in the Oval Office, when he repeated that his position is weak and that “he has no letters to play.”
Since that anger in the White House, the Ukrainian government and the president’s office have concentrated each movement of their diplomatic strategy in flattering Trump and convincing him that Putin does not want peace. Until July, when the Republican leader admitted in public that Putin has been giving long peace process, Trump had lavished in praise for the Russian autocrat and in bilateral telephone interviews.
The support of the European Union and the United Kingdom to Zelenski were key as of May for Trump to assume that the future of Ukraine cannot be decided by Washington and Moscow. The turning point was a summit that was held in May in kyiv and in which the leaders of Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Poland participated with Zelenski. Friedrich Merz, Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer and Donald Tusk, who would begin that May in Türkiye, coordinate with only time between Europe, Ukraine and the US.
Transatlantic cooperation on war improved, both communication between its leaders and the acquisition of American weapons for kyiv. Only the constant postponement of new Washington economic sanctions on Russia had caused critical messages from the Zelenski government to the White House.
Zelenski has now raised his voice after months containing. And the reason is to perceive Trump’s temptation to cook the master lines of the future of Ukraine in his relationship with Trump. The summit of the week in Alaska among the heads of state of the United States and Russia, in which Putin has vetoed the presence of Zelenski, have made the alarms jump in kyiv. “Any decision that harms us, any decision without Ukraine, is a decision against peace,” said Zelenski.
“They are unfeasible decisions. We need real and genuine peace, a peace that the people respect,” added the Ukrainian president, aware that a bad agreement can cause a hard popular reaction in their country. Two years ago, notices on this scenario are repeated in Ukraine. A Parliament commission published in September 2023 a report of possible post -war scenarios. Oleksii Zhmerenetski, deputy of Server of the People (Zelenski’s party), was the emergence of a radical nationalist political majority promoted by a forced peace agreement from abroad and is understood by the Ukraine as a claudication.
