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President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff said this week that there will be no “compromises” with Russia despite fears that Moscow will seek to capture more territory after the failures of the counteroffensive last year.
Andriy Yermak, one of the most powerful figures in the Zelensky government, told POLITICO that Kyiv will not accept any terms in which the lines of conflict are frozen and that Ukraine will not accept any agreement that infringes upon its borders.
“The Russians are not interested in any negotiations. They want the capitulation of Ukraine. But it will never happen — all of us who are in Ukraine, we will not accept any compromise on our independence, on our territorial integrity, on our freedom. And this president will never agree to anything like the Minsk agreements or a frozen conflict. No, I’m sure about that,” Yermak said.
Although Kyiv failed during its highly vaunted “Spring counteroffensive” last year to recapture any meaningful amount of territory from the Russians and growing concerns over the possibility of Moscow launching another offensive as the winter ground thaws, Zelensky’s government has said that it will not enter into any negotiations with the Kremlin unless Russia withdraws from all territories promised under its 1991 borders after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
