Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Fox News that his country “cannot legally acknowledge any occupied territory of Ukraine as Russian,” when asked if he was willing to cede land as part of a peace deal.
Zelenskyy made the remarks in an exclusive interview with Fox News' chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst before the Pentagon announced Wednesday an additional $275 million in military assistance for Ukraine in its fight against Russia.
“Have you accepted that under any sort of cease-fire agreement or peace deal that some Ukrainian territory may remain in Russian hands?” Yingst asked Zelenskyy.
“We cannot legally acknowledge any occupied territory of Ukraine as Russian. That is about those territories… occupied by Putin before the full-scale invasion, since 2014,” Zelenskyy responded. “Legally, we are not acknowledging that, we are not adopting that.”