From Euro News:
“Ukraine will not cede any of
its territory, Zelenskyy tells Euronews”
(Ukraine's President Volodymyr
Zelenskyy, left, and European Council President Antonio Costa arrive for an EU
Summit at the European Council, Oct. 23, 2025. )
There will be no territorial
concessions in Ukraine, the Ukrainian president said, answering Euronews'
question on whether Kyiv is now being pressured into territorial concessions. There
will be “no territorial concessions” made to Russia as part of future peace
negotiations, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Euronews as he
arrived for the EU summit in Brussels on Thursday. Zelenskyy's "no"
came the morning after the EU and the US imposed new sanctions on Russia for
Moscow’s refusal to reach a ceasefire in its all-out war against its neighbour.
The Kremlin said its demands have
not changed, meaning Moscow wants to keep control over Crimea and four other
regions of Ukraine, which Russian forces do not control entirely.
US outlets reported earlier this
week that Putin made a new offer to Trump under which Ukraine would surrender
the parts of the eastern Donbas region under its control in exchange for some
smaller parts of the two southern frontline regions of Kherson and
Zaporizhzhia. Allegedly the area in question was Ukraine's Donetsk region,
which, together with Luhansk, makes up the Donbas — a large industrial area in
eastern Ukraine. Russia has been trying to take complete control of it since
the first invasion in 2014, but until today it has been unable to fully occupy
it. The Kremlin later made it clear that it is not backing off and still wants
control over Crimea, plus the whole four regions that are only partially
occupied at this time: Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.
US President Donald Trump himself
said on Wednesday that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin did not scale
down his territorial ambitions over Ukraine’s invasion. “I have always felt he
wanted the whole thing, not a piece of it,” the US president stated on
Wednesday, referring to Putin’s maximalist territorial demands.
Freezing Russia's war along the
current frontlines is "a good compromise," Zelenskyy said on
Wednesday, reiterating his support for a ceasefire as the first step towards
any deal to end Moscow's full-scale invasion. "I think that was a good
compromise but I'm not sure that Putin will support it," Zelenskyy said
during a visit to Norway, adding that he communicated this to Trump. "It's
not like a plan (for) how to totally stop the war, it's mostly a plan of
ceasefire," he added.
Kyiv has been suggesting this
approach since the very first talks with Trump: an immediate, unconditional
ceasefire in Ukraine, followed by direct Zelenskyy-Putin talks.
In an effort to pressure Moscow into agreeing to a ceasefire, the US imposed sanctions on Russia's two largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil. "Now is the time to stop the killing and for an immediate ceasefire," US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said. "Given President Putin's refusal to end this senseless war, Treasury is sanctioning Russia’s two largest oil companies that fund the Kremlin’s war machine," Bessent stated
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