US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is not ruling out long-term talks on Ukraine’s future borders. However, the decision to do so rests with the Ukrainians, he stressed yesterday before a parliamentary committee in Washington. Any peace deal must be “fair and lasting”. Blinken stressed that Ukraine’s independence and territorial integrity must be preserved.
“But how exactly this will be defined on the territory, we are waiting for the Ukrainians to tell us.” … ground to fight. And maybe there are areas they decide to try to recover through other means.”
According to observers, the head of US diplomacy has indicated that Washington does not believe that Kiev troops are likely to retake all Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia – especially Crimea.