Ukraine may have to give up the earth for peace

Kiev Mayor Vitaly Klitskaya said the BBC that Ukraine may have to abandon the land within the peace treaty with Russia, against the background of increased pressure from President Donald Trump to accept territorial concessions.

“One script is to abandon the territory. It’s not fair. But for peace, temporary peace, it may be a temporary solution,” he said.

But the 53-year-old former politician who turned to the boxing emphasized that the Ukrainian people “will never accept Russia.

He performed a few hours after the Russian rocket attack and drapery on Kiev killed 12 people and suffered more than 80.

It was one of the most deadly Russian attacks on the Ukrainian capital in a few months.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched a full -scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and Moscow currently controls about 20% of the Ukrainian territory.

Speaking to the BBC Radio 4 program today from his office in Central Kiev on Thursday, Klitska noted that “is responsible for the capital of Ukraine”, calling it a “heart” of the country destroyed by the war.

He said that Vladimir Zelensky’s president could be forced to make a “sore decision” to achieve peace.

The mayor of Kiev is now one of the oldest Ukrainian politicians who publicly say that his country may have to give up the territory, albeit temporarily.

Asked if he discussed with him any details of the possible settlement, Klitsko simply replied: “No.”

“President Zelensky is doing (this). This is not my function,” he added.

Klitskaya and Zelensky are political opponents. The mayor repeatedly accused the president and his team of trying to undermine his power.

Turning to a very public restructuring between Zelensky and Trump in the White House in February, the mayor suggested that key problems between leading politicians would better discuss “without a video camera”.

Earlier this week, Trump accused Zelensky of the detriment of peace talks, after the Ukrainian leader again excluded the recognition of Russian control over Crimea, the southern Ukrainian peninsula, illegally annexed by Moscow in 2014.

Trump said Crimea was “lost years ago” and now “was not even a discussion point.”

But Zelensky pointed to the “Declaration of Crimea” of the 2018 Trump Secretary Mike Pump, in which the US “rejects Russia” in the United States.

Ukraine and its European allies have in recent weeks concerned that many on the continent see Trump’s relations with Russia Vladimir Putin.