Zelensky draws line in negotiations: We're not giving land to Russia

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Yahoo News

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that neither he nor his people can accept some of Russia's reported demands for ending its increasingly brutal invasion, which is now entering its fourth week.

Notably, Zelensky said, Ukraine would not be giving any territorial concessions to Russia.

"There are compromises for which we cannot be ready as an independent state," he told CNN host Fareed Zakaria, speaking through an interpreter. "Any compromises related to our territorial integrity and our sovereignty .... [the] Ukrainian people have spoken about it. They have not greeted Russian soldiers with a bunch of flowers; they have greeted them with bravery, and they have greeted them with weapons in their hands."

Zelensky added: “You cannot curry favor with the citizens of another country forcibly.”

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/volodymyr-zelensky-fareed-zakaria-cnn-ukraine-165552475.html

[Lonestarblue]

1. Indeed Putin should get nothing but continued sanctions on Russia so long as he is in power.

Along with a court date for his trial on war crimes.

[dchill]

2. They should demand that Russia get out of Crimea!

[Igel]

8. He just did. n/t

[dchill]

10. NOW he's negotiating!

[calimary]

12. Good!

It wasn't yours to begin with, Vlad.

[SheltieLover]

3. Russia needs to gtf out of Ukraine, including Crimea!

[NCjack]

4. I certainly hope you don't give up any land. You should demand payment for the

lives that they took and damage they did. If they can't pay in dollars now, then you should demand that Russia cede its future oil and gas.

[L. Coyote]

5. An intelligence coup. R-149MA1 Unified Command Vehicle (UCV)

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An intelligence coup. And so it is! Look at all these previously secret Russian equipment up for grabs! 😜
As we've posted previously, the Russians are making a hash of their electronic warfare capabilities in the Ukraine War. While they put much investment in offensive capabilities to disrupt enemy communications, they had seemingly neglected to upgrade their own communications networks such that it resulted in their own troops being forced to use cheap civilian walkie talkies to communicate amongst themselves.
This deficit in Russian Army command and control networks has been dealt an even bigger blow by the fact that a number of their highly specialised, and secret, command vehicles have fallen into Ukrainian hands from where they would no doubt be transferred to other countries in the Western sphere of influence for technical exploitation.
Here, we see a R-149MA1 Unified Command Vehicle (UCV) as the Russians call it, or mobile command post as most people call such things, based upon a BTR-80 APC being worked over by Ukrainian troops. The unique communications suite within the vehicle and all of their associated code and cypher books and records would be a major coup for the West. These are the exact kind of things that spies work hard to get their hands on. And here, it just fell into their hands like a windfall apple.

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[calimary]

13. All's fair...

...and all that.

[OMGWTF]

6. My highest and best offer is GTFO NOW!

[James48]

7. That man is a gift of God to us all.

Z says the most incredible wisdom.
I wish I could vote for him.

[Wounded Bear]

9. As well he should...

that is hardly an unreasonable demand.

The world should support him in this, absolutely.

[paleotn]

16. Agree. Putin can't be rewarded in any way for this.

[Ilsa]

11. Area west of Volgograd north to St Petersburg should be given to Ukraine,

if Ukraine wants it. Really piss off Putin that his place of birth is no longer Russian.

[Warpy]

14. Well, why not? All Putin wants

is every single seaport Ukraine has. What's the harm in that?

Nope, gotta side with Zelenskyy on this one, Russia needs to withdraw into its own borders, and I don't mean keeping Crimea or Donetsk.

Fuckers.

[paleotn]

15. Nor should they....

They're the ones in the strategically better position. Every day Russia is burning its military and its economy. It can't afford to do this much longer. Ukraine, however, is supplied by the nearly inexhaustible west and will have to rebuild their country regardless. Even if Russia takes Ukraine, holding it + continued sanctions will set them back decades economically. No win situation for Putin at this point.

[AllyCat]

17. No! Russia already took what didn't belong to them.

Crimea, parts of Georgia, and Chechnya. Putin has more than he needs or deserves.

No land.

[bluedigger]

18. In three weeks Putin will be negotiating for the release of his army.

[TomSlick]

19. I assume Zelenskyy will also not agree to "demilitarize" Ukraine.

It would suicidal for Ukraine to disarm.

[Scrivener7]

21. LOL! Nyet.