Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday night that he was willing to cede territory to Russia to end the war for the first time on condition that Ukraine is admitted to NATO “fast”. The Mail has more.
In an interview with Sky News, the Ukrainian President suggested he was prepared to end the “hot phase” of the war in exchange for membership of the bloc.
He said if the Ukrainian territory he controls was taken “under the NATO umbrella”, he could return the rest, which is currently under Russian occupation, in a “diplomatic way”.
Zelensky has previously suggested that the war would not end until his country is returned to its internationally recognised borders.
“If we want to stop the hot phase of the war, we need to take under the NATO umbrella the territory of Ukraine that we have under our control,” Zelensky said.
“We need to do it fast. And then on the [occupied] territory of Ukraine, Ukraine can get them back in a diplomatic way.”
The Ukrainian leader was answering questions on what President-elect Donald Trump’s desire to end the war would mean for his country.
It has been reported that one of the Republican’s plans to achieve this would involve Kyiv ceding the land taken by Russia in exchange for Ukraine’s Nato membership.
Mr. Zelensky’s concessions follow a series of disappointments on the battlefield for Ukraine. Russia has taken six times as much Ukrainian territory in 2024 as it did last year.
And the pace of the Kremlin’s advances has forced Ukraine to send thousands of reservists to reinforce vulnerable areas in the east.
The Kremlin’s so-called ‘meat grinder’ tactics have resulted in Russia’s daily casualty figures breaking 2,000 for the first time, according to figures released on Friday.
Troops are ordered to charge at gunpoint towards Ukrainian defensive positions, leading to territorial gains but increasingly high losses through death, injury and fleeing from the frontline.
Zelensky’s comments also come after an alliance chief assured last month that Ukraine will become a NATO member in the future – but was unable to say when the country might join.
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte reiterated on October 17th that the war-torn nation’s place is among NATO’s ranks.
“Ukraine will be a member of NATO in the future,” Rutte said. “The question is exactly about the ‘when’. I cannot answer that now.”
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The demand for racism seems to be far exceeding the supply.
Grifters are gonna grift.
If anyone tells you that you are a victim, its usually because they want to control you…
True. But I should like to add an important qualification. The doctrines touted by the Andrews of this world are not “anti-racist” at all; they are in fact expressions (witting or unwitting) of racial hatred, and of the most hateful kind, laying the blame for the world’s ills upon one people and one ethnicity alone; and, as a result, demanding rafts of coercive policy against that people, policy effectively cast as some variety of justified revenge. No end to these coercions and discriminations is offered. Worst of all they rest on skewed, partial, dishonest history (witness that abominable little woman so recently exposed for pretending that some invention was “stolen from slaves”) and notions of inherited, collective guilt – notions which can be found at the heart of extremist movements throughout history and across the world. I am delighted that at least some of the purveyors of this poisonous nonsense have been laid off; let the rest of them follow.
Time to see if Hard Lines is on duty….Maybe you’re aware of the recent episode in London where a black woman was caught shoplifting and it all kicked off because she said the store owner assaulted her. Lo and behold the local black community are pulling out their racist victim cards and calling ‘white supremacy’, the laugh being that the shop owner was Asian, but don’t let that stop you being a black racist! The second laugh, take a look at the video in the comments section showing store footage of what actually went down and who the violent culprit really is. The woman’s proper psycho but because she’s black she gets a free pass??
https://twitter.com/BFirstParty/status/1701913748707918120
If you scroll down you can see how it all started. He’s trying to stop her leaving with stuff she hasn’t paid for. Then he’s restraining her while someone rings the police but she’s fighting him the whole time. Was he meant to just let her leave with her swag, like they’re doing in the US? Who do you think is at fault? Apparently she was arrested for shoplifting in the end but I’ve a feeling his business is done for.
https://twitter.com/Dhrubtim/status/1701641089059328136
Nothing is doing quite as much to assist social breakdown as the Police’s reluctance to police petty crimes. If you don’t crack down on petty crime, you open up decriminalisation of a broad range of offences against the person and property, which is largely what has happened over the last 10 years.
It’s the sense of entitlement and justification for their crimes, whether it be crimes such as stealing or, at the other end of the spectrum, murder. It could be the ”kill de boer” over in S. Africa, where black people are targeting white farmers to torture and butcher or it could be this example, in the US. Horrific murder caught on camera. The DM covered it and the article is linked in the comments section. Would they have done this had the cyclist have been black?? But they’ll find some way of justifying it, right? But only they get to cry ”racism’!”
https://twitter.com/RadioGenoa/status/1702964440486842766
The police are too busy cracking down on very petty (non)crime such as comments about lesbian nana’s. The same police force no longer investigates shop lifting if the goods stolen are worth less than £250. Then there’s the all the thought crime to investigate such as taking a picture of a poster with a sticker on it. Everybody above the rank of sergeant needs to be sacked so we can start again with constables who want to do their job and keep their communities safe.