Euronews reported that on April 24, Polish President Andrzej Duda affirmed that in order to achieve a long-term peaceful solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, both sides will have to accept a level of concession.
This means that neither side can achieve all the set conditions, and Ukraine will likely have to accept some unsatisfactory things.
Duda's statement attracted attention because Warsaw has long been one of Kiev's strongest supporters in the conflict with Moscow. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has publicly opposed any peace agreement that would force Ukraine to give up territory.
Commenting on the US-led peace efforts, Duda said that only President Donald Trump - who he described as always playing hard - could mediate the end of the war. Duda is also the first leader of the European Union (EU) to meet Trump since his inauguration in January.
According to RT, President Trump is said to have just presented Kiev with a peace framework, including a proposal to recognize the Crimean peninsula as part of Russia. The peninsula, which is largely populated by ethnic Russian, held a weekend weekend weekend to re-enter Russia in 2014, following a Western-backed coup d'etat in Kiev.
Previously, on April 23, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Kiev would never recognize Crimea as Russian territory, and refused to include the issue in the content of peace negotiations.
Responding to the above statement, President Trump has harshly criticized and said that convincing Mr. Zelensky is more difficult than convincing Russian President Vladimir Putin.
For its part, Russia has also denied any possibility of territorial cuts. Moscow asserted that the situation of Crimea and four other territories that were once part of Ukraine that were later annexed by Russia after the 2022 referends was unable to be negotiated. Russia said that any peace agreement must reflect reality on the ground.
