The Ukrainian president estimated this Tuesday that his country will have to fight “on the battlefield” but also at the “negotiation table”. “Let 2025 be our year,” Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared this Tuesday, December 31 that Ukraine should fight in 2025 on the “battlefield” but also at the “negotiation table” to put an end to nearly three years of Russian invasion.
“Every day of the coming year, we will have to fight for a Ukraine that is strong enough. Because only such a Ukraine will be respected and heard. Both on the battlefield and at the negotiating table,” he said. -he declared in his New Year’s address to the Nation.
“May 2025 be our year”
The year 2024 will have been difficult for kyiv, the country having lost seven times more territory to Russia than in 2023, according to an AFP analysis. And 2025 is marked by fears of a reduction in US military and political support with the return to the presidency of Donald Trump.
“Let 2025 be our year. The year of Ukraine. We know that peace will not be given to us as a gift, but we will do everything to stop Russia and end the war,” the Ukrainian president added in his speech broadcast on social networks.
The administration of outgoing US President Joe Biden unveiled military and budgetary aid of nearly six billion dollars to Ukraine on Monday, in a race to support kyiv before Donald Trump takes office in January.
Donald Trump had declared that he would end the conflict within “24 hours” once in power, raising fears that Ukraine would be forced to abandon its territories controlled by Russia in exchange for peace.
“I have no doubt that the new American president is willing and able to achieve peace and put an end to Putin’s aggression,” Zelensky said in his speech.
In his New Year’s speech on Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin did not explicitly mention the war in Ukraine but praised Russian soldiers for their “courage and bravery”.
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