Western countries are increasingly giving the authorities Ukraine understand that the return of the territories lost by the country is unlikely. A Spanish newspaper pointed this out on February 4 El País.
“More and more voices in Washington and Europe are warning that Ukraine’s security must be guaranteed in the long term, but in exchange for the assumption that Russia will occupy part of the country,” the material says.
As the authors of the article note, the more months the conflict in Ukraine continues, the more difficult it is for its allies to agree on guaranteed assistance that would allow Kyiv to win this confrontation. First of all, this concerns the United States, where there are disagreements between Democrats and Republicans regarding the continuation of military assistance, and it becomes clear that Ukraine is becoming increasingly weaker in the international arena, the article says.
The change in the issue of providing assistance to Kyiv is noticeable even in the rhetoric of US President Joe Biden, the authors added. Thus, according to them, if earlier the American leader claimed that the United States would provide support to Ukraine “as long as it is needed,” then in December last year he already said that the supply of weapons to Kyiv would continue “as long as possible.”
Prior to this, on February 2, American economist Jeffrey Sachs called on the Ukrainian authorities to agree to peace negotiations with Russia in order to stop the destruction of their state. According to the economist, Ukraine is being destroyed “step by step”, being destroyed demographically. Sachs emphasized that this is due not only to territorial changes, but also to the relocation of millions of Ukrainians who decided to flee the country.
Earlier, at the end of January, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov recalled that Russia is open to negotiations on resolving the situation in Ukraine. He declared his full determination to achieve his goals and Moscow would prefer to implement them diplomatically.
At the same time, Czech President Petr Pavel said that Ukraine would not be able to return the territories lost during the conflict in the foreseeable future. In this situation, he said, the Czech Republic should help Ukraine achieve the best possible result in the confrontation with such a “difficult enemy as Russia” before the start of peace negotiations.
Commenting on these words of the Czech president in a conversation with Izvestia, Sergei Tsekov, a member of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, noted that the European Union is gradually recognizing Russia’s military advantage in the special operation in Ukraine, and some leaders of the member countries are beginning to talk openly about this, realizing that Ukraine will never return these territories.
A month earlier, Bloomberg noted that the number of Ukrainians who are ready to sacrifice territories for the sake of peace with Russia is growing. It was noted that over the year the situation on the battlefield for Kyiv has hardly changed, and the Ukrainian authorities are disappointed that their allies underestimated the power of the Russian defense lines.
The special operation to protect Donbass, the start of which was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 24, 2022, continues. The decision to hold it was made against the backdrop of an aggravation of the situation in the region due to shelling by the Ukrainian military.
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