{"id":25350,"date":"2025-04-16T17:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T17:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/25350\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T17:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T17:46:08","slug":"ukrainians-roll-eyes-at-witkoff-reject-border-changes-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/25350\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainians roll eyes at Witkoff, reject border changes \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis all is Ukraine\u2019s right under international law, not just a wish list\u201d Tykhyi added. \u201cRussia has no right to dictate anything to Ukraine. It\u2019s an aggression, where there\u2019s a state that was attacked and the attacker state. There should not be equalizing of the two.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Witkoff, who met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on April 11, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6371496494112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> that Russia wants a permanent settlement and that the peace deal Moscow has proposed includes \u201cfive territories of Ukraine\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Witkoff did not specify which territories he meant, but Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/trump-envoys-embrace-russian-demands-worries-republicans-us-allies-2025-04-11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that he had embraced the Russian position in talks with Trump. POLITICO could not independently verify this claim.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow considers Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula in the Black Sea that it illegally occupied and annexed in 2014, as Russian territory.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022 Russia conducted sham referendums in four other Ukrainian regions \u2014 Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia \u2014 and annexed all four, even though it still doesn\u2019t fully control those territories.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Since last summer Putin has demanded that Ukraine withdraw from the four regions, including the city of Zaporizhzhia, which was never occupied, and the city of Kherson, whose residents celebrated their liberation by Ukrainian forces in fall 2022. <\/p>\n<p>While Kyiv acknowledges it doesn\u2019t have the military means to recover the occupied territories by force, it hopes that goal can be achieved through diplomacy and international pressure on Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThis all is Ukraine\u2019s right under international law, not just a wish list\u201d Tykhyi added. \u201cRussia has no&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[32,2000,299,660,332,7070,1771,657,49,333,2601,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-25350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-kremlin","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-steve-witkoff","14":"tag-u-s-foreign-policy","15":"tag-ukraine","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-vladimir-putin","18":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","19":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114348896022647066","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}