If Ukraine can launch a successful counteroffensive this spring, it is ready to negotiate with Russia on the status of the Crimean peninsula. So says Andrii Sybiha, deputy head of cabinet of President Zelensky to the Financial Times.
If Russia is not willing to do so, Sybiha is also not ruling out a military conflict to retake Crimea from Russia, which annexed the area in 2014. “If we can achieve our strategic goals on the battlefield and if we are at the administration with Crimea, we are ready to open (a) diplomatic page to discuss this issue”.
“It is a completely theoretical and unexpected circumstance”
Foreign commentator Bernard Hammelburg estimates the possibility of it coming to this. “It’s a completely theoretical and unexpected circumstance.” However, Ukraine’s expression is important, says Hammelburg. “Diplomats see that Ukraine is starting to change a bit, Western diplomats find it very important.”
Diplomacy
Openness is therefore important, because President Zelensky is normally very adamant on negotiations with Russia. “He stated that there is nothing to negotiate. Previously he said that he was willing to negotiate only until all the occupied territory was returned to Ukrainian hands ». Hammelburg therefore calls the location a “turning point”.
Zelensky earlier said he is convinced that the entire territory of Ukraine will be liberated from the Russians, including Crimea. However, he also opened up the possibility of Ukraine retaking Crimea through “the diplomatic route”.
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Source: BNR
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