Ukraine does not have the strength to return the territories occupied by russia by military means, but the constitution prohibits giving the country's territories to anyone.
This was stated by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an interview with the French publication Le Parisien, published on December 17.
According to the Ukrainian President, the only solution now is to bring russia to the negotiating table.
"We cannot give up our territories. The Constitution of Ukraine forbids us to do so. De facto, these territories are now controlled by the russians. We do not have the strength to return them. We can only count on diplomatic pressure from the international community to force putin to sit down at the negotiating table. I wonder: why is the West, which supports us, taking a soft position towards him? Why have we not received massive arms supplies from the very beginning of the war? My comments may seem presumptuous. But I have the impression that everyone is terrified of putin's russia. He enjoys impunity. We need a strong America and a strong Europe to put pressure on putin and stop this war," Zelenskyy says.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, the day before, on December 17, it became known that russian troops had advanced near eight settlements in the Donetsk Region. They also occupied the village of Hannivka in the Kurakhove area.
We will remind you that due to the russian advance in the Pokrovsk area, the forced evacuation of children was announced in seven more settlements in the Donetsk Region.
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