{"id":1670,"date":"2025-08-10T15:47:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T15:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2025-08-15T14:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:01:14","slug":"ukrainian-fm-rejects-trumps-peace-suggestion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/10\/ukrainian-fm-rejects-trumps-peace-suggestion\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian FM rejects Trump\u2019s peace suggestion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrey Sibiga has dismissed the idea that Kiev and Moscow could swap territory to end the conflict<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ukraine\u00a0will not agree to make any concessions to Russia, Kiev’s Foreign Minister Andrey Sibiga has stated. His remark came shortly after US President Donald Trump suggested ahead of Friday’s upcoming summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin that a peace agreement between the conflicting nations would likely involve \u201csome swapping of territories.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The Lugansk People\u2019s Republic, Donetsk People\u2019s Republic, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions became part of Russia following referendums held in 2022. Crimea voted to join the country in 2014, following the armed Western-backed Maidan coup in Kiev.<\/p>\n

In a post on X on Sunday, Sibiga wrote: \u201cNo rewards or gifts to the aggressor to appease him,\u201d<\/em> adding that \u201cevery concession invites further aggression.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Kiev\u2019s European backers make counter-offer ahead of Alaska talks \u2013 WSJ<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

His comment echoed a string of posts published on X by Vladimir Zelensky the previous day, in which he vowed not to \u201callow this second attempt to partition Ukraine\u201d<\/em> and the \u201clegalization of the occupation of our land.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

According to Zelensky, the first \u201cpartition\u201d<\/em> took place when Crimea, the majority Russia-speaking territory which\u00a0is also home to Russia’s Black Sea fleet, voted to join the Russian Federation in a referendum that the new Ukrainian leadership and the West have never accepted.<\/p>\n

Weeks later, an uprising\u00a0began in predominantly Russian-speaking Donetsk Region and Lugansk Region. Citing the threat of forced Ukrainization, the secessionists established their own independent republics with the intention of eventually following Crimea\u2019s example. A bloody military conflict followed in which thousands of civilians died between 2014 and 2022, often at the hands of Western-backed neo-Nazi militias, but Kiev failed to completely regain control of either territory by force.<\/p>\n

Sibiga\u2019s statements came after Trump announced earlier this week that he would\u00a0meet with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in Alaska on August 15.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and the Russian president met in Moscow on Wednesday. According to Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov, Washington had made an \u201cacceptable\u201d<\/em> offer, but he declined to provide further details.<\/p>\n

Moscow has long accused Zelensky of denying reality and unnecessarily prolonging a conflict he cannot win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrey Sibiga has dismissed the idea that Kiev and Moscow could swap territory to end the conflict Ukraine\u00a0will not agree […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1677,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions\/1677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}