{"id":1794,"date":"2025-08-21T16:41:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2025-08-22T13:52:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:52:32","slug":"ukraine-ready-to-accept-frontline-freeze-top-zelensky-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/21\/ukraine-ready-to-accept-frontline-freeze-top-zelensky-aide\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine ready to accept frontline \u2018freeze\u2019 \u2013 top Zelensky aide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several regions would then remain \u201cde facto\u201d Russian, Mikhail Podoliak has said<\/strong><\/p>\n

One scenario for ending the Ukraine-Russia conflict is for Kiev to accept freezing the hostilities along current battle lines, Mikhail Podoliak, a senior adviser to Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky, has said.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica in an interview published on Thursday, the top aide commented on potential concessions Kiev could make for a peace deal.<\/p>\n

\u201cUkraine\u2019s preliminary position is as follows: we understand that one of the basic scenarios to get out of this war is freezing the conflict along the front line,\u201d<\/em> Podoliak said. Some territories would remain \u201cde facto\u201d<\/em> Russian, he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cDe jure no one would recognize those territories as Russian,\u201d<\/em> and great efforts would need to be exerted through \u201ceconomic, diplomatic and other tools\u201d<\/em> to get them back, Podoliak said.<\/p>\n

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In such a scenario, Kiev would also need to be included in an alliance, Podoliak added. \u201cNot NATO, but an alliance nonetheless,\u201d<\/em> he said. US President Donald Trump has repeatedly ruled out Ukrainian membership in NATO.<\/p>\n

According to Podoliak, the deployment of military contingents to Ukraine from \u201cvarious countries\u201d<\/em> is under discussion with around ten countries,\u00a0particularly France.<\/p>\n

Moscow has repeatedly stressed that it will not accept the UK- and France-led initiatives to send forces from NATO countries to Ukraine, warning that such a move could lead to a direct confrontation between Russia and the West.<\/p>\n

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Russia has insisted that any lasting settlement in the Ukraine conflict must address the core causes of the conflict, address Moscow\u2019s security concerns and recognize the current territorial realities. This includes the status of Crimea and the four new Russian regions: the Lugansk and Donetsk People\u2019s Republics, as well as Zaporozhye and Kherson Regions, which voted in referendums to join Russia in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several regions would then remain \u201cde facto\u201d Russian, Mikhail Podoliak has said One scenario for ending the Ukraine-Russia conflict is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1796,"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\/1794"}],"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=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1798,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions\/1798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}