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“This all is Ukraine’s right under international law, not just a wish list” Tykhyi added. “Russia has no right to dictate anything to Ukraine. It’s an aggression, where there’s a state that was attacked and the attacker state. There should not be equalizing of the two.”
Earlier this week, Witkoff, who met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on April 11, said that Russia wants a permanent settlement and that the peace deal Moscow has proposed includes “five territories of Ukraine”.
Witkoff did not specify which territories he meant, but Reuters reported that he had embraced the Russian position in talks with Trump. POLITICO could not independently verify this claim.
Moscow considers Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula in the Black Sea that it illegally occupied and annexed in 2014, as Russian territory.
In 2022 Russia conducted sham referendums in four other Ukrainian regions — Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia — and annexed all four, even though it still doesn’t fully control those territories.
Since last summer Putin has demanded that Ukraine withdraw from the four regions, including the city of Zaporizhzhia, which was never occupied, and the city of Kherson, whose residents celebrated their liberation by Ukrainian forces in fall 2022.
While Kyiv acknowledges it doesn’t have the military means to recover the occupied territories by force, it hopes that goal can be achieved through diplomacy and international pressure on Russia.
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