{"id":49284,"date":"2025-04-25T11:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T11:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/49284\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T11:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T11:48:12","slug":"ukraine-may-have-to-give-up-land-to-russia-kyiv-mayor-vitali-klitschko-admits-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/49284\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine may have to give up land to Russia, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko admits \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Klitschko, a political opponent of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, made clear that the Ukrainian president hadn\u2019t discussed any settlement with him: \u201cPresident Zelenskyy does [it] himself. It\u2019s not my function.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

While admitting it would be a \u201cpainful solution\u201d to achieve peace, Klitschko insisted the Ukrainian people would \u201cnever accept occupation\u201d by Moscow long term.<\/p>\n

But the Kyiv mayor\u2019s remarks about a temporary transfer of land stand in stark contrast to a U.S. peace plan which heavily favors Moscow, calling for informal American recognition<\/a> of Russia\u2019s control over Crimea, a nonstarter for Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Klitschko\u2019s comments come as Trump\u2019s special envoy Steve Witkoff is set to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin for more peace talks. Nearly 100 days since his return to power, Trump insisted he was putting pressure on Kyiv and Moscow equally to end the war \u2014 which leadership in Ukraine disputes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have no idea what pressure I\u2019m putting on Russia,\u201d Trump said Thursday<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re putting a lot of pressure on Russia.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Klitschko, a political opponent of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, made clear that the Ukrainian president hadn\u2019t discussed any settlement with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[5293,32,25809,2597,2598,332,7070,657,49,333,2601,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-49284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-diplomacy","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-mayors","11":"tag-military","12":"tag-missiles","13":"tag-russia","14":"tag-steve-witkoff","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\/114398449135890672","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49284","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=49284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}