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Kissinger warned against Russia's concessions to Ukraine
The former US Secretary of State said that in the course of possible future negotiations with Russia, the West and Ukraine should seek the return of all territories seized after February 24.
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger called on the West and Kyiv, in the course of possible future negotiations with Moscow, not to cede the territories occupied by Russia after the start of a full-scale war. He stated this in an interview with
the ZDF TV channel on Sunday, July 24.
"In the current situation, the leaders of democracies must clearly understand what they are ready to negotiate and what they are not ready to give up under any circumstances," Kissinger said. According to him, negotiations can go on only with "full cooperation" with the victims of aggression - the leadership and people of Ukraine. He called this approach "the only conceivable basis for managing the situation."
"The surrender of Ukrainian territory cannot be a condition that we can accept," the former secretary of state stressed. "The fact is that Russia will have to return all the territories it has seized since the beginning of the war," he said.
Dispute over Kissinger's words about the surrender of Ukrainian territories
In May, speaking at the World Economic Forum in
Davos , Kissinger said that the dividing line in the negotiations between Ukraine and Russia should be "a return to the former status quo." Many media outlets and politicians interpreted these words as a call to Kyiv to give up part of its territories in order to achieve peace.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky
compared this proposal with calls from some European countries to make territorial concessions to Hitler before the outbreak of World War II. "Mr. Kissinger emerges from the deep past, for example, and says that it is supposedly necessary to give Russia a piece of Ukraine. So that there is supposedly no alienation of Russia from Europe. It seems that Mr. Kissinger does not have 2022 on the calendar, but 1938," Zelensky said .
In early July, Kissinger clarified his words
in an interview with Time, explaining that he did not call on Ukraine to give up its territories. “If you read what I actually said, I never said that. I said that the best dividing line for a ceasefire is the status quo. That is, you should not wage war from territories that were Ukrainian before the war started, against territories that were considered Russian at that time," Kissinger explained.
"Now Russia still occupies 15 percent of the pre-war territory of Ukraine. They must be returned to Ukraine before a ceasefire can be established. The disputed territory is a small corner of the Donbass, about 4.5 percent, and Crimea," he said. "I did not say that the territory should be given away. I just meant that it should have a separate status in any negotiations. I unconditionally support the freedom of Ukraine and its significant role in Europe," Kissinger stressed.