In this photo provided by the Press Service of the President of Ukraine on Nov. 19, 2024, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to deputies in the Verkhovna Rada in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Press Service of the President of Ukraine via AP)
President Volodymyr Zelensky has acknowledged that the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Russia since 2014, should probably become part of Ukrainian territory again through diplomacy.
In an interview with the Fox News television network, preferred by the American right, which he conceded on a train somewhere in Ukraine and which was broadcast in its entirety yesterday Wednesday, Mr. Zelensky explained that the country cannot afford to lose the number of lives that would be required to recapture the strategically important peninsula in the Black Sea with military operations.
But he once again rejected the idea of handing over territory seized by the Russian armed forces — roughly 20% of Ukrainian territory is under their control — insisting that Kiev “cannot legally recognize any occupied territory of Ukraine as Russian territory”.
“I have already stated that we are willing to recover Crimea through diplomatic means,” said Mr. Zelensky through an interpreter on Fox News.
“We cannot waste tens of thousands of our people, let them perish to take back Crimea (…) It is not the case that we could not take it back with a gun in hand”, but “we realize that Crimea can be recovered through diplomatic means ».
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