Ukraine will not for any reason compromise with Russia and will not give up any territory, an advisor to Zelenskyy has reiterated vowing to take back all the cities which are presently under the control of the Russian forces.
‘The only option for reconciliation is Russia’s capitulation, the withdrawal of troops and talks on compensation. This is the principle position of the government,’ Oleksiy Arestovych told 24 Channel in an interview which was monitored by Africa Daily News, New York.
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Arestovych pointed out that he believed some countries wanted a repeat of the Minsk agreements, which had sought unsuccessfully to end the war in Ukraine’s Donbas region since 2014.
But he said, although some countries would try to negotiate, ‘there will be no option where we allow Russians to stay here’.
Amnesty International has said that the Red Cross should be given immediate access to the Ukrainian fighters from Mariupol’s Azovstal steel plant who surrendered to the Russians and were taken to Russian-occupied territory.
Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty’s deputy director for the region, cited lawless executions allegedly carried out by Russian forces in Ukraine and said the Azovstal defenders ‘must not meet the same fate.’
Africa Daily News, New York had earlier reported that Russia, had on Wednesday claimed that no fewer than 1,000 last-ditch Ukrainian fighters who held out inside a pulverised steel plant had surrendered.
It was unclear how many fighters remained inside the plant’s labyrinth of tunnels and bunkers, where 2,000 were believed to be holed up at one point.
The head of Ukraine’s president’s office has said that the longer the war lasts, the more risk there is that it will involve other countries.
