{"id":1532859,"date":"2025-04-28T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1532859"},"modified":"2025-04-28T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T19:00:00","slug":"ukrainian-army-commander-openly-threatens-zelensky-will-regret-ceding-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/ukrainian-army-commander-openly-threatens-zelensky-will-regret-ceding-territory\/1532859\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Army Commander Openly Threatens Zelensky: Will ‘Regret’ Ceding Territory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian Army Commander Openly Threatens Zelensky: Will ‘Regret’ Ceding Territory<\/span><\/p>\n

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Russia on Monday made clear that it is sticking by initial demands raised by Moscow at the start of the war in February 2022, after President Putin last week issues statements which appeared open to compromise for the sake of peace talks.<\/p>\n

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has declared that Russia will never give up its hold over Crimea, as well as the annexed\u00a0regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson oblasts<\/strong>. He named as a condition for peace negotiations that Russia’s control and sovereignty over these\u00a0territories is vital and essentially non-negotiable.<\/p>\n

“The international recognition of Crimea, Sevastopol, the DPR, the LPR, the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions as part of Russia is another imperative,” he said<\/a>. “All the commitments Kiev assumes must be legally binding, contain enforcement mechanisms and be permanent,” Lavrov added.<\/p>\n

Image: Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

“Russia proceeds from the premise that Kiev\u2019s non-accession to NATO, as well as reaffirming its neutral and non-aligned status as per the 1990 Declaration on Ukraine\u2019s State Sovereignty – these factors form one of the two pillars for a final settlement to the Ukraine crisis that would meet Russia\u2019s security interests,” he continue.<\/p>\n

The top Russian diplomat also demanded that Ukraine enact\u00a0legislation that restores and protects Russian language<\/strong>, culture, and churches and monasteries in Ukraine. Some one-third of the country has long spoken Russian as their first language, and many more know it as a second language.<\/p>\n

Zelensky has been waging a state persecution campaign against the largest Orthodox Church in Ukraine, because it has not broken spiritual communion with the Moscow Patriarchate, at times outright seizing monasteries and churches, and arresting bishops and priests. Russian media broadcasts and media have also long been banned.<\/p>\n

Lavrov detailed of Moscow’s demands, “The second pillar consists of overcoming the legacy of the neo-Nazi regime which took power in Kiev after the February 2014 putsch, including the initiative by its perpetrators to eradicate and cancel, in both physical and legislative terms, everything Russian, be it the Russian language, media, culture, traditions, or the canonical Orthodox faith<\/strong>,” as conveyed in TASS.<\/p>\n

“Demilitarizing and de-Nazifying Ukraine<\/strong> is also on the agenda, along with lifting sanctions, withdrawing lawsuits and cancelling arrest warrants, as well as returning Russian assets subjected to the so-called freeze in the West,” he emphasized.<\/p>\n

Of course, there’s also the ban on Ukraine ever becoming a member of NATO, which is a key compromise already being offered by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

Again, all of this is essentially identical to the demands articulated by Putin at the very beginning of the full-scale war. President Trump, coming off the brief Rome meeting with Zelensky, thinks he’s ready to give up Crimea<\/a>:<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump has said he thinks\u00a0Volodymyr Zelensky\u00a0is ready to give up Crimea<\/strong>, despite his Ukrainian counterpart\u2019s previous assertions on the Black Sea peninsula that was annexed by Russia in 2014.<\/em><\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters at an airport in New Jersey on Sunday a day after\u00a0meeting with Zelensky\u00a0at the Vatican, Trump said \u201cOh, I think so,\u201d in response to a question on whether he thought Zelensky was ready to \u201cgive up\u201d the territory<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

But is the Ukrainian leader really ready to do this and face attacks – possibly even assassination attempts <\/strong>– from within his own far-right paramilitaries and even army commanders?\u00a0<\/p>\n

A Ukrainian Army brigade commander openly threatens Zelensky on a Ukrainain TV show.<\/p>\n

He warns him not to negotiate with Russia, not to concede territory, or he will “Regret it”<\/p>\n

Open threats to the commander in chief from his own troops, Ukraine is a lawless basket case. pic.twitter.com\/McN1GjlkIM<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) April 28, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

While the common Ukrainian populace is likely more willing to find compromise for the sake of peace, there are still Azov militants and their associates running the show in many places – and their position remains that no compromise whatsoever should be made and the fight must continue, even as Ukrainian forces are being beaten back.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has warned in a media interview that if Washington imposes more sanctions on Russia, this basically assures more war for years to come. “The minute you start doing that kind of stuff, you’re walking away from it, you’ve now doomed yourself to another two years of war and we don’t want to see it happen,”<\/strong> he said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He added: “There is no other country, there is no other institution or organization on the Earth that can bring these two sides together, no one else is talking to both sides but us and no one else in the world can make something like this happen but the president.”<\/p>\n

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More headlines via Newsquawk<\/em>… Geopolitics: Ukraine<\/p>\n

US President Trump met with Ukrainian President Zelensky at the Vatican for 15 minutes which Zelensky\u2019s staff said was constructive, covered a lot of ground and they agreed to meet again, while the White House said the meeting was very productive.
\n\tUS President Trump said the meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky went well and we’ll see what happens in the next days, while Trump is very disappointed with Russia and wants Russian President Putin to stop shooting and reach a deal. Furthermore, Trump said the confines of a deal are there and that Zelensky is calmer now and wants to make a deal, while it was separately reported that President Trump said he thinks Ukrainian President Zelensky is ready to give up Crimea, according to Al Arabiya.
\n\tUS President Trump said there was no reason for Russian President Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns over the last few days which makes him think that Putin doesn\u2019t want to stop the war and is just \u2018tapping\u2019 him along, while Trump added too many people are dying and this has to be dealt with differently through banking or secondary sanctions.
\n\tUS Secretary of State Rubio said Russia and Ukraine are generally closer to a peace deal than in the last three years and a peace deal needs to happen soon, while he added that the US has options to hold responsible those that don\u2019t want a Ukraine peace deal, according to NBC.
\n\tRussian President Putin confirmed Russia\u2019s readiness to negotiate with Ukraine without preconditions during a meeting with US envoy Witkoff, according to IFAX.
\n\tRussian President Putin said Kyiv\u2019s adventure in the Kursk region completely failed and Chief of General Staff Gerasimov said Ukrainian saboteurs in Russia\u2019s Belgorod region have been liquidated. Furthermore, Russia\u2019s military commander told Russian President Putin that scattered remnants of Ukrainian forces in Russia\u2019s Kursk region will be destroyed soon, according to RIA.
\n\tRussian Foreign Minister Lavrov said Russia will continue to target sites used by Ukraine\u2019s military, foreign fighters and military instructors sent by Europe, while he added that Russia would be willing to store Iran\u2019s enriched nuclear material if both the US and Iran believe that was useful.
\n\tUkrainian military said Moscow\u2019s assertion it has ended Ukraine\u2019s incursion into the Kursk region is not true and operations inside Kursk continue, while its forces are still on active operations in the Belgorod region.
\n\tFrench President Macron said he had a very positive exchange with Ukrainian President Zelensky and that Ukraine is ready for an unconditional ceasefire, while the coalition of the willing will continue working on a ceasefire and lasting peace in Ukraine.
\n\tGerman Defence Minister Pistorius said US demands for Ukraine to cede territory to Russia are going too far.
\n\tNorth Korea confirmed troop deployment to Russia and said it will faithfully implement its agreement with Russia, according to Yonhap. Furthermore, South Korea said North Korea’s confirmation of Russia troop deployment is an admission of a criminal act and the US State Department noted it is concerned by North Korea’s direct involvement in Russia’s war in Ukraine, while it added that North Korea’s military deployment to Russia and any support provided by Russia to it in return must end.\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nMon, 04\/28\/2025 – 11:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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