Zelenskyy Reverses His Stance Again: Ukraine Still Aims to Join NATO
This is already the countless time Zelenskyy has changed his stance.
After announcing his "20-point peace plan," Zelenskyy recently reversed his previous statement that "Ukraine has given up on joining NATO," saying instead that Kyiv would not abandon this goal. "How NATO and Russia negotiate whether Ukraine joins the alliance is their own business. Ukraine has already made its own choice," he said.
However, the changes go beyond "Ukraine continues to seek membership in NATO."
After reviewing Zelenskyy's "20-point peace plan," The New York Times published an article on the 25th stating that Russia would never accept these terms because they "completely ignore Russian demands."
The report pointed out that Zelenskyy's "20-point peace plan" did not make any other substantive concessions besides implicitly acknowledging that parts of the eastern four regions have been occupied by Russia. Ukraine not only refuses to withdraw its troops from the remaining territory of Donetsk but will maintain a military force of around 800,000 people after the war.
In other words, although the U.S. and Ukraine have had frequent talks, there has actually been no breakthrough — Trump's special envoy Wittkow and son-in-law Kushner have not succeeded in pressuring Zelenskyy to retreat, but instead were met with a peace plan demanding Russia to make concessions... After a long back-and-forth between the U.S. and Ukraine, they eventually returned to square one.
Currently, Alexey Zhuravlyov, first deputy chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee, has made a statement, saying that Zelenskyy's "20-point peace plan" was "created behind the Americans' backs," and that Russia will not sign it.
Therefore, Trump's hope to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict by the end of the year has clearly failed, and the war is destined to continue until 2026.
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