Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, 98, called on Russia and Ukraine to start peace talks within the next two months when he attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Monday, saying the ideal premise would be the return of the border between the two countries. Status quo ante. His remarks were accused of implying that in addition to asking Ukraine to accept the annexation of Crimea by Russia, it also agreed to give up de facto control of the Donbass region in eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized Kissinger’s remarks in a video address on Wednesday, emphasizing that he will fight to the end and not give an inch of ground. He said Kissinger’s calendar stayed on 1938, not 2022, the year Britain and France signed the Munich Agreement, which ceded parts of the Czech Republic to Nazi Germany to avoid war. Zelensky also said that those who told Ukraine to take care of Russia’s interests ignored the fact that the Russian army had fired thousands of shells into Ukraine, killed tens of thousands of Ukrainians, and destroyed many cities and villages. The good geo-politicians of the 1990s have always turned a blind eye to the general public, “there are countless civilians who are living in territories they think can be abandoned”.
Originally published on AM730 https://www.am730.com.hk/international/Rebutting Kissinger’s remarks on ceding territory and peace talks-Zelensky-no inch of land/321331