How Zelenski comments the statement of the US emissary about the “five territories” to be included in the Peace Agreement
Volodimir Zelenski, Photo: Pool for Yomiuri / Ap / Profimedia
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski responded on Tuesday to statements made by Donald Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, who spoke about the “five territories” around which the key to a peace agreement with Russia.
Special US messenger Steve Witkoff met last week at Saint Petersburg, with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Speaking of this meeting with Vladimir Putin, Steve Witkoff told the US Fox News that the Peace Agreement in Ukraine will include a regulation of the “so-called five territories”, but without specifying what it is, reports News.ro.
And last month, in an interview with Tucker Carlson, Witkoff said that “the biggest problem in this conflict are the so-called four regions”, but when he started listing, he listed five: “Donbas, Crimea, Luhansk and two others.”
“Only the Ukrainian people can talk about their territories.”
Some statements of the US President's emission of the resolution of Russia's invasion in Ukraine have attracted criticism to the White House and among the Republicans, including Trump's envoy, General Keith Kellogg, according to Reuters.
“As for the territory, Ukraine is a sovereign state, and all the territories belong to the unitary state of Ukraine. Therefore, again, only the people of Ukraine can talk about the territories of our state. And you know that, for us, these are red lines – to recognize any territory temporarily occupied as being not Ukrainian, To them, ”said Volodimir Zelenski on Tuesday during a press conference with NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte, in Odessa, reports the Interfax-Ukraine.
