00:00Is it going to be acceptable to Washington, though, because the latest peace plan that Ukraine is submitting to the United States,
00:07it seems not to include any mention of ceding territory.
00:12And I'm just wondering how you think Washington will react to a plan like that.
00:16Well, we don't care how they will react to our unglowness not to cede an inch of Ukrainian territory internationally recognized and actually by Russia itself.
00:26And actually, the so-called Budapest Memorandum of 1994 got security assurances from the United States, from Russia and some other countries
00:36that neither Ukrainian sovereignty nor territorial integrity or political stability would be undermined by the undesigned parties.
00:43And now Mr. Trump and his friends, because they don't have official positions like his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, or his business partner, Steve Witkoff,
00:56they want Ukraine to cede territory in return for nothing.
01:00Because we do not believe, first and foremost, we do not believe that ceding any territory will bring any type of peace to Ukraine.
01:09Second thing, we just, we cannot do that for many reasons, starting from the constitution to the humanitarian issues.
01:15I'm a native of Donetsk city that has been occupied by Russia since 2014.
01:21And my compatriots from that region has been converted into Russian soldiers and they were thrown into the battle and they were killed fighting for Russia.
01:31And the same thing will happen to all those men and women that are living on the temporary occupied territory of Russia that Russia wants to be, to incorporate in its state.
01:43So it's completely unacceptable, not just for Ukrainians, not just for Europeans, but the whole world.
01:48If it's possible to see, to conquer someone's territory, why the other guys, bad guys across the globe would not try to do that if aggression pays off.
01:59So it's not just the interest of Ukraine not to sit that territory, but for the rest of the world to support Ukraine, not to do so.
02:09And to deter Mr. Trump from recognizing this illegal annexation of Ukraine's territory.
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