Adviser to the Ukrainian presidential office Mijailo Podoliak ruled out on Tuesday that the so-called Victory Plan that the president Volodímir Zelenski is scheduled to present this month to the president of USA, Joe Bideninclude the possibility that Ukraine cede territories to Russia or agree to freeze the conflict on its current lines.
“The President has spoken about this more than once, the dominant position is clear: no freezing of the conflict, because this would not lead to the end of the war itself, but would only give Russia the opportunity to accumulate additional resources and continue a third stage (of aggression against Ukraine) with further mass killings of civilians in Ukraine.”Podoliak said.
The adviser to the Ukrainian presidential office, who made these statements in an interview with television Nastoyaschye VremiaHe added that “there is no concept of ceding territories” or “freezing the conflict.”
Podoliak insisted that “Russia’s defeat” would involve supplying more weapons to Ukraine and increasing military, diplomatic, economic and political pressure on the Kremlin to force it to withdraw its troops from Ukraine.
In this regard, the Ukrainian presidential adviser stated that the Ukrainian military operation in the Russian Oblast of Kursk -where kyiv troops control dozens of towns after launching an invasion of this part of Russian territory on August 6- shows that it is possible to wage war within the Russian Federation in the context of the pressure on the Kremlin to which he referred.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced in his address to the nation on Monday that he has more than 90 percent of his Victory Plan written. Zelensky hopes to receive support from the United States and its other allies to force Russia to end its invasion of Ukraine. EFE (I)
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