Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticized former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger for saying that Ukraine should hand over territory to Russia in exchange for peace.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum, Kissinger said that Ukraine should return to the status quo ante.
By that, Kissinger implied that the pro-Kremlin groups in the Donbas region should be allowed to rule the region informally, as well as that Russia should be allowed to control the peninsula it annexed in 2014).
Zelenskyy derided Kissinger for his suggestion, saying the nonagenarian is emerging from the deep past.
He said that Mr. Kissinger thought he was talking to an audience in Germany during the appeasement of the Nazi Third Reich.
Mr. Kissinger was 15 years old when his family fled Nazi Germany. He didn't mention that it was necessary to adapt to the Nazis instead of fleeing them or fighting them.
Zelenskyy attacked The New York Times for an article published on May 19 that said the US should avoid engaging with the conflict given that domestic inflation is a more pressing issue.
Zelenskyy said that editorials began to appear in some Western media stating that Ukraine must give up territory in exchange for peace.
The New York Times may have written something similar. Let me remind you that it is 2022.
Zelenskyy said on Wednesday that Ukraine wouldn't agree to peace until Russia returned the regions to the country.
Zelenskyy promised to return the peninsula to Ukraine before the Russian invasion began.
Oleksandr Motuzyanyk, the defense ministry spokesman for Ukraine, said Tuesday that Russia's military had entered its most active phase of the war to date.
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