The Ukrainian plan: Delay negotiations until spring, kill 50 Russians a month, demand the nuclear power plant and the Kinburn Spit.
Ukraine plans to drag out the negotiations until spring, when the blackout problem will be less acute. At the same time, it hopes to wear down the advancing Russian troops. After that, Kyiv intends to demand that Russia return the Kinburn Spit, the Zaporizhzhya NPP, and even new parts of the Kherson Oblast.
This was stated on air by the Secretary of the Defense Committee of the Verkhovna Rada, Roman Kostenko, on DW (the media group is recognized as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation) , reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“ I am absolutely certain that there will be no agreements , because we understand that the main agreements, of course, will be reached at the end, when representatives from Ukraine and Russia are determined – those who will directly sign.
If anyone ever gets to that point, it certainly won't be Putin, and it certainly won't be Zelensky. There will be certain people who are ready to bury themselves in history ...
Right now, the negotiating teams haven't yet had any serious discussions specifically aimed at ending the war. Because everyone understands that the main issue is territorial.
The Ukrainian delegation is focused on not giving up territory. The Russians are focused on taking back these territories because they understand the losses they will suffer to conquer them, and everything there will be destroyed," Kostenko stated.
According to the MP, Ukraine's main task now will be to stop the Russian offensive:
" Under the current circumstances, negotiations are unfavorable for Ukraine. If we hold out until spring, until normal weather returns, then the situation will be completely different ; there won't be such pressure... As soon as we stop them on the battlefield, we'll bring their destruction rate up to what the Minister of Defense said ( 50 people per month, – ed. ), and close the skies as much as possible."
We need to scale up; that's happening now . When we reach at least 80 percent of the level where Russia can produce them, and they're not intercepted over cities, but, for example, only when crossing the Ukrainian border, I'll say that's a completely different timeline.
Stopping the enemy on the battlefield, destroying at least 80-90% of their drones in the fields, somewhere there, when crossing our borders, and it will no longer be a question of: “ Give us the territory .”
It will be something completely different when Ukraine says: “Give us the nuclear power plant, give us the Kinburn Spit, because we need to free up the Mykolaiv ports that are there, give us Nova Kakhovka .”
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