Ukraine’s ruler, Volodymyr Zelensky, has rejected the peace terms set forth by the United States ruling class. From the beginning, Zelensky has declared that he will not accept any deal with territorial concessions.

Zelensky has rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s call for territorial concessions to Russia, claiming no such agreement would be accepted by the Ukrainian people. This is in spite of Zelensky’s concession earlier this week that Ukraine is not in a position to forcibly retake Russian territories claimed by Kiev.

According to a report by RT, Zelensky declined the peace deal in his regular video address on Saturday. The Ukrainian ruler stressed that Ukraine’s borders are defined by its constitution and that “nobody can or will” make concessions on the issue. “The Ukrainians will not give their land to the occupiers,” he proclaimed.

Because the Ukrainian military relies heavily on Western weapons, funding, and intelligence to keep the war going, knowing it cannot “win,” the government is counting on sustained long-term support, even though it just rejected a peace deal brokered by the U.S.

Zelensky further stated in his address that Ukrainians will only respect a “real, living peace,” warning that “any decision taken against us and without us, without Ukraine, would be a decision against peace.”

Russian officials have repeatedly accused Zelensky of denying reality and prolonging a conflict he cannot win. Moscow says it intends to achieve its core national security objectives, preferably through diplomacy. –RT

Trump also stated back in May that he would potentially help attempt to broker a peace deal between the two warring nations.  But recently, the ruler has been criticizing his predecessor, Joe Biden, for escalating the war, while following in similar patterns.

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The U.S. has recently gone back and forth on whether it will continue to send military and financial aid to Ukraine. Trump additionally claimed that, if not for his administration’s actions (which, quite frankly, aren’t that different than those of Biden’s), the Ukraine conflict “would have ended up being a world war.”