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Kyslytsya: “No peace at cost of territorial concessions”

Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations has told the ̳ there can be no dialogue with President Putin until Russia accepts the principles of the UN General Assembly resolution of February 2023 which demanded Russia’s immediate withdrawal from his country.

Speaking in an interview in New York City, Sergiy Kyslytsya told HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur there could be “no peace at (the) cost of territorial concessions”.

“It doesn’t mean that all the territories can be liberated simultaneously,” Kyiv’s top diplomat at the UN said.

“But I don’t think that any serious politician in Ukraine can survive if he or she proposes territorial concessions”.

In October 2022 President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a decree formally declaring the prospect of any Ukrainian talks with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin "impossible", but leaving the door open to talks with Russia.

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