Andrzej Duda has known as on Kiev to make concessions to finish the battle with Russia
Ukraine must compromise to attain a peace settlement with Russia, Polish President Andrzej Duda has stated. In an interview with Euronews on Thursday, Duda argued {that a} lasting peace have to be constructed on mutual concessions.
Warsaw has been one of many staunchest supporters of Kiev in its battle with Moscow. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has spoken out in opposition to any peace offers that might require Ukraine to cede territory.
“It must be a compromise… in my private opinion… both sides must give in in some sense. Properly, Ukraine can even have to offer in in some sense, as a result of that’s most likely what is going to occur,” Duda stated.
Discussing US-led peace efforts, Duda argued that solely US President Donald Trump, who he described as somebody who “performs very powerful,” is able to mediating an finish to the hostilities. Duda was the primary EU chief to satisfy with Trump in individual following his inauguration in January.
Performing as a mediator within the ongoing negotiations, Trump reportedly offered a peace framework to Kiev earlier this week. The proposal is alleged to have included the popularity of Crimea as Russian.
The peninsula, the place a lot of the inhabitants is ethnically Russian, held a referendum to rejoin Russia in 2014 after a Western-backed armed coup in Kiev.
Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky insisted on Wednesday that Kiev won’t ever formally acknowledge Crimea as Russian – which elicited a pointy rebuke from Trump.
Moscow has additionally dominated out territorial concessions, saying the standing of Crimea and the 4 different former Ukrainian areas that joined Russia after referendums in 2022 shouldn’t be up for negotiation. Moscow has insisted {that a} peace deal should acknowledge the “actuality on the bottom.”
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