Ukraine has struggled to make itself heard in international talks about its own future, initially being frozen out by Russia and the U.S.<\/p>\n
Kyiv is more involved now, but is under huge pressure from Washington and Moscow to make galling concessions regarding its land and mineral wealth. American Vice President JD Vance said<\/a> Wednesday that\u00a0Ukraine will have to agree to give up territory or the U.S. will walk away from mediating negotiations, adding that the conflict needs to be frozen on the current front lines.<\/p>\n The Americans have proposed recognizing Crimea \u2014 which Russia illegally annexed in 2014 \u2014 as Russian territory, with President Donald Trump on Wednesday posting exasperatedly<\/a> about Ukraine\u2019s hesitance to accept that demand. Washington\u2019s take-it-or-leave-it plan also provides no security guarantees for Ukraine and would also allow Russia to operate the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which it captured in 2022, to sell energy to both Ukraine and Russia.<\/p>\n This plan has flabbergasted Ukrainian officials and MPs, who see it as a capitulation to an aggressor. \u201cUkraine is ready to negotiate, not surrender,\u201d Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said in a post on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThere will be no agreement that hands Russia the stronger foundations it needs to regroup and return with greater violence \u2026 We will never recognize the occupation of Crimea. And if NATO membership is not granted, Ukraine will require binding security guarantees \u2014 ones strong enough to deter future aggression, and clear enough to ensure lasting peace,\u201d Svyrydenko said.<\/p>\n The opposition wants to know the details of how Zelenskyy and his government will ensure peace. \u201cUkrainians should learn about the progress of the negotiation process not from international media, Secretary of State Rubio, or special representatives Witkoff and Kellogg, but from the Ukrainian authorities,\u201d Iryna Gerashchenko, a Ukrainian opposition MP from the European Solidarity party, said in a post on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine has struggled to make itself heard in international talks about its own future, initially being frozen out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[809,332,657,49,978,659,2601,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-44429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-negotiations","9":"tag-russia","10":"tag-ukraine","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-usa","14":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","15":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114388528668174908","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44429","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=44429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}