Ukraine says negotiating with Russia would be ‘capitulation’: Zelensky’s presidential advisor condemns West’s ‘bizarre’ attempts to persuade them to enter peace talks

The West’s attempts to persuade Ukraine to negotiate with Moscow are ‘bizarre’ and amount to asking for its capitulation, a key adviser to the Ukrainian presidency has declared.

‘When you have the initiative on the battlefield, it’s slightly bizarre to receive proposals like: ”you will not be able to do everything by military means anyway, you need to negotiate,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s adviser Mykhaylo Podolyak.

This would mean that the country ‘that recovers its territories, must capitulate to the country that is losing,’ he added during an interview in the presidency building in Kyiv this week.

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