The Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday there will be “no thought” of any territorial concessions to Ukraine and the illegally annexed territory of Ukraine’s Crimes, Luhansk and Donetsk Oblasts, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia will remain part of Russia.
Reuters reported that Lavrov said, “Territorial concessions to what is now called Ukraine were made by the Soviet leadership during the formation of the USSR.”
Russia illegally annexed the four oblasts even though Moscow had no control over them, this includes the two regional capitals Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, which are Ukrainian, the Kyiv Independent reported.
In 2024 Vladimir Putin said the only conditions for peace negotiations, will require Ukrainian troops to leave the occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Luhansk and Donetsk Oblasts.
Kremlin foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov will head to Saudi Arabiato hold meetings on Tuesday with the US delegation, the Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.
“They are expected to hold a meeting with their American counterparts on Tuesday, which will focus primarily on restoring the entire complex of Russian-American relations,” Peskov added.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky has previously said he will never give up Ukrainian territory and that Putin must withdraw to the 2022 borders.
President Zelensky said on Saturday, “I hope” that the US President Donald Trump will be on “our side” and will push Putin from “all our territory.”
Speaking to Newsmax TV channel Zelensky said, “And of course, when we talk about a just peace for Ukraine, we understand that we do not have the power to push them out from all our territory.
“Yes, we have to push them out with diplomacy and with our partners, but not to lose. And that is why I think that, at a minimum, they have to go to the line before a full-scale invasion.”
