Kiev denies using land for peace, Crimean officials say Ukraine lost the Sea of Azov
Ukraine’s presidential adviser, Oleksiy Arestovich, said that some European countries clearly “want Kiev to make concessions to Russian President Vladimir Putin”.
“No one will exchange a gram of our sovereignty or a millimeter of our territory. Our children are dying, our soldiers are being trampled by shells and some say we have to sacrifice our territory. That will not happen,” Al Jazeera news agency quoted Arestovich as saying today (May 26).
Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that some European countries’ plans for peace in Ukraine were “paranoid”.
“They cannot with one hand supply weapons to Ukraine, while on the other hand come up with a plan for a peaceful solution. If they hope that Russia will carry out any of the Western plans, then they don’t understand us,” Zakharova told Reuters news agency.
Crimean official says Ukraine lost Sea of Azov ‘forever’
“Ukraine has lost the Sea of Azov forever, the ports of the two provinces of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson will no longer belong to them. I guarantee that after the above regions ‘reunify’ with Russia, the Sea of Azov will once again, like before, belong to us,” the Guardian news agency quoted Georgy Muradov of the Crimean government as saying. today (May 26).
Official Vladimir Rogov, a member of the executive council of the military-civilian government of Zaporizhzhia province, also announced on the same day that the province and the Kherson region “will never return to the control of the Kiev authorities”.
According to the Moscow Times, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on May 19 that only people living in the southern provinces of Ukraine have the right to decide the fate of these regions. “Nothing can be done without the will of the people in these regions, without their decision on how to go on and with whom to live,” Peskov said at the time.
Separatists reveal the number of Ukrainian soldiers laying down their weapons
The official of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) self-proclaimed Rodion Miroshnik today said that more than 8,000 Ukrainian soldiers have laid down their weapons in the Donbass region. “There were a lot of Ukrainian soldiers who laid down their weapons. Currently, the total number of enemy soldiers we have received has reached 8,000 people. This means that hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers lay down their weapons every day,” Miroshnik was quoted as saying by The Guardian news agency.
Currently, The Guardian and many other independent news agencies have not been able to verify the statement of the LPR official.
Tuan Tran
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