AFP, Europa Press, Reuters, Xinhua and The Independent
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, November 30, 2024, p. 18
kyiv. Volodymir Zelensky stated yesterday that he is willing to cede territory to Russia in order to end the hot phase of war. According to him, such a step would be temporary and would be given in exchange for a umbrella of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on the lands still under kyiv’s rule, Ukraine’s Interfax agency reported.
The president noted that they could later recover the territories that are currently under Moscow’s control diplomatically, and insisted that it is essential to reach a ceasefire in the conflict to ensure that Moscow does not capture more land.
He added that NATO’s invitation must recognize internationally accepted Ukrainian borders.
Zelensky’s comments represent a considerable change in his position, and come in the context of the upcoming arrival to the White House of President-elect Donald Trump, who has repeatedly said he will end the conflict on his first day in office.
In this sense, this week Trump named retired General Keith Kellogg, one of his closest collaborators, as a future envoy for the conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
The 80-year-old former general addressed the issue in a memo published in April, in which he asserted that any future US aid would require kyiv to participate in peace talks with Moscow, and requested that the country’s membership in NATO be postponed for a period. prolonged.
For his part, French President Emmanuel Macron denounced, in a call with his Ukrainian counterpart, the escalation promoted by Vladimir Putin within the framework of the invasion of kyiv, and promised to continue cooperating with Zelensky “with the same intensity and during the necessary time.
The increase in understanding with North Korea and the irresponsible rhetoric that accompanies it are part of a logic of unacceptable escalation on the part of Russia, which continues to apply a revisionist, brutal and imperialist plan, violating the sovereign rights of Ukraine and the Charter of the united nationsMacron emphasized.
Also the German Federal Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, assured that Berlin will continue to provide military assistance to kyiv; while former German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Ukraine and its supporters to consider diplomatic solutions to end the war, and stressed that Russia must not winduring a talk show on the public broadcaster ZDF. Furthermore, he said that the Russian offensive is a flagrant violation of international law.
Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed that any solution to the conflict in Ukraine will not be lasting without eliminating the root causes that caused it.
kyiv claims it caused 2,000 Russian casualties in one day
On the front, the Russian army suffered more than 2,000 casualties in a single day, kyiv reported, in what would mark one of the largest losses for that side since the start of the war; while Moscow assured that its air defense systems shot down 30 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the northwest of Rostov province, reported the acting governor, Yuri Sliusar.
Meanwhile, the head of the NATO military committee, Admiral Rob Bauer, stated that this organization is studying the possibility of launching preventive precision strikes on Russian territory, in the event of an armed conflict with the countries of the alliance, reported the half EA Daily.