{"id":193258,"date":"2025-12-11T19:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T19:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/ukraine-war-briefing-zelenskyy-will-not-give-up-land-in-exchange-for-peace-presidents-chief-of-staff-says-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T19:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T19:52:14","slug":"ukraine-war-briefing-zelenskyy-will-not-give-up-land-in-exchange-for-peace-presidents-chief-of-staff-says-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/ukraine-war-briefing-zelenskyy-will-not-give-up-land-in-exchange-for-peace-presidents-chief-of-staff-says-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy will not give up land in exchange for peace, president\u2019s chief of staff says – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andriy Yermak\u2019s comments come as Putin says Russia will fight on unless Kyiv withdraws from territory. What we know on day 1,374
See all our Ukraine war coverage<\/a><\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will not agree to give up land to Russia in exchange for peace<\/strong>, his chief of staff Andriy Yermak told US magazine the Atlantic in an interview published on Thursday. \u201cAs long as Zelenskyy is president, no one should count on us giving up territory. He will not sign away territory,\u201d Yermak said.
The comments were published after Vladimir Putin said Russia will fight on unless Kyiv withdraws from territory<\/strong> Moscow claims as its own. <\/strong>Referring to the outline of a draft peace plan proposed by the US, Putin said it could serve as a basis for future negotiations to end the war but insists Ukraine has to surrender territory. \u201cIn general, we agree that this can be the basis for future agreements,\u201d Putin said, noting that the version of the plan discussed by Washington and Kyiv<\/a> in Geneva had been shared with Moscow. \u201cWe see that the American side takes our position into account in some areas,\u201d he added. \u201cBut in other points, we clearly need to sit down and talk.\u201d The Russian president\u2019s uncompromising remarks \u2013 in which he again described Volodymyr Zelenskyy as \u201cillegitimate\u201d \u2013 suggested that, despite White House optimism, there is little sign of movement on the core sticking points needed to end the war.
Ukrainian and US delegations will meet this week<\/strong>, Zelenskyy has said, <\/strong>to work on points raised at the Geneva talks to bring peace with Russia and provide security guarantees for Ukraine. Meanwhile, the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orb\u00e1n, said he would discuss peace efforts in Ukraine at a meeting later on Friday in Moscow with Vladimir Putin about Hungary continuing to secure crude oil and gas from Russia.
Belgian prime minister Bart De Wever has said the European Union\u2019s plan to use frozen Russian state assets to fund Ukraine could endanger a potential peace deal<\/strong> to end the nearly four-year war, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. \u201cHastily moving forward on the proposed reparations loan scheme would have, as a collateral damage, that we as EU are effectively preventing reaching an eventual peace deal,\u201d De Wever said in a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, seen by the FT.
Any peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine<\/a> that includes an amnesty for war crimes could encourage other authoritarian leaders to attack their neighbours<\/strong>, Ukraine\u2019s only Nobel peace prize winner has warned. Oleksandra Matviichuk said the leaked 28-point US-Russia plan did not account for \u201cthe human dimension\u201d and she supported Zelenskyy\u2019s efforts to rewrite it in dialogue with White House. \u201cWe need a peace, but not a pause that provides Russia<\/a> a chance to retreat and regroup,\u201d the Kyiv-based human rights lawyer said.
Moldova\u2019s parliament has voted<\/strong> to close a Russian cultural centre in a new bid to reduce Moscow\u2019s influence<\/strong> in the country a day after Russia\u2019s ambassador was summoned over drone intrusions that Moldova said were unacceptable. Fifty-seven members of the 101-seat assembly backed the measure on Thursday. The government said the Russian Centre for Science and Culture in Chisinau could serve as an instrument to promote narratives posing a threat to Moldova\u2019s security.<\/p>\n

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Andriy Yermak\u2019s comments come as Putin says Russia will fight on unless Kyiv withdraws from territory. What we know on day 1,374See all our Ukraine war coverage Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will not agree to give up land to Russia in exchange for peace, his chief of staff Andriy Yermak told US magazine the Atlantic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-193258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}