Ukraine's Stark Choice: Make Peace With Russia or Waste More Time, Lose More Lives & Territory
06:45 03.06.2025 (Updated: 08:23 03.06.2025)
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Ukraine’s stark choice: make peace with Russia or waste more time and lose more lives and territory
The memorandum of demands handed to the Ukrainian side by the Russian delegation is basically unchanged from the proposals laid out by President Putin a year ago, and the Zelensky regime should consider it if it doesn’t want to see Ukraine shrink any further, says Russian security expert Alexander Mikhailov.
“Russia’s demands to Ukraine would not have been made in principle if Volodymyr Zelensky, who came to power in 2019 and inherited the need to implement the Minsk agreements, had fulfilled their main points.”
“If he had done so, it wouldn’t have been necessary to launch the special military operation, and Ukraine would not have had to relinquish the territories that were previously Ukrainian, but now, after the [2022] referendums, became part of the Russian Federation,” Mikhailov said.
Zelensky and his entourage likely also remember the spring 2022 Istanbul negotiations, where Russia presented a much shorter list of demands, and Ukraine faced far fewer losses, political and otherwise.
Unfortunately, Zelensky’s position – rejecting demilitarization and the abandonment of its pro-NATO course, signals that he hasn’t learned anything in the past 11 years.
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The memorandum of demands handed to the Ukrainian side by the Russian delegation is basically unchanged from the proposals laid out by President Putin a year ago, and the Zelensky regime should consider it if it doesn’t want to see Ukraine shrink any further, says Russian security expert Alexander Mikhailov.
“Russia’s demands to Ukraine would not have been made in principle if Volodymyr Zelensky, who came to power in 2019 and inherited the need to implement the Minsk agreements, had fulfilled their main points.”
“If he had done so, it wouldn’t have been necessary to launch the special military operation, and Ukraine would not have had to relinquish the territories that were previously Ukrainian, but now, after the [2022] referendums, became part of the Russian Federation,” Mikhailov said.
Zelensky and his entourage likely also remember the spring 2022 Istanbul negotiations, where Russia presented a much shorter list of demands, and Ukraine faced far fewer losses, political and otherwise.
Unfortunately, Zelensky’s position – rejecting demilitarization and the abandonment of its pro-NATO course, signals that he hasn’t learned anything in the past 11 years.
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