“Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the head of the President’s Office, assures that there is currently no plan to end the war, which would include freezing the conflict, ceasing fire, or handing over some territories to Russia.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: Podolyak on the air of the TV channel “Nastoyastchee vremya”
Direct speech: “The president has repeatedly spoken about this, this is a clearly dominant position: no freezing of the conflict, because it will not lead to the end of the war as such, but will only lead to Russia getting the opportunity to accumulate additional resources and continue the third stage of more massive killings of the civilian population in Ukraine. Therefore , of course, there are no concepts of ceding territories, there are no concepts of freezing the conflict.”
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Details: Yermak’s advisor emphasized that Kyiv’s official position is only one: the war must end with the defeat of Russia.
“The defeat of the Russian Federation can be ensured with a certain amount of weapons as such. That is, roughly speaking, military, diplomatic, economic and political coercion,” said Podolyak. “Plus the Kursk operation, which shows that it is really possible to work effectively, in particular on the territory of Russia, there and escalating the war there.”
According to the adviser, the Kursk operation appears in the “victory plan” of Volodymyr Zelenskyi.
“This, firstly, will have a significant impact on the social attitudes that exist in Russia. Second, it will put significant pressure on Putin’s entourage and lead to the end of this war,” he is confident.
According to Podolyak, the Western allies are interested in international law prevailing, but for this there must be tactical or strategic defeats of the Russian Federation, because everything else will only lead to escalation.
Direct speech: “Just the wrong ending to this war will lead to an escalation of the situation not only in Eastern Europe, but also in Europe in general, and this is obvious to our Western allies. Another issue is the bureaucracy, the speed of decision-making, the readiness to really stop hiding behind these mythical ” red lines”, more precisely to think about them, etc. But Ukrainian diplomacy works with this, the president of Ukraine intensively talks about it on various platforms.”
What preceded: In his evening address on September 16, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that Ukraine has determined the necessary points of the plan for victory in the war against the Russian Federation and is ready to present it to its allies next week.