Slovak President Peter Pellegrini stated on December 15 that partial territorial losses would probably have to be accepted to achieve peace in Ukraine. Slovakia’s head of state also called for the immediate start of peace talks
“As far as peace is concerned, I think realism must be maintained. Today, probably no sensible person in Europe believes that peace can be achieved without Ukraine’s partial territorial losses,” said Peter Pellegrini, who has also previously objected to inviting Ukraine to join NATO’s military alliance and said immediate accession was “unrealistic” in times of war.
Meanwhile, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD), who has since been stripped of confidence by the German parliament, reportedly refused to supply Taurus missiles to Ukraine in the party’s upcoming February election program, according to a leaked draft program. Germany’s chancellor has long insisted on refusing to hand over Germany’s Taurus long-range missiles, even though other major backers of Ukraine, including the United States, have already supplied similar ones.
Meanwhile, Putin also spoke out about Ukraine. According to the Russian president, “the Kiev regime is losing signs of statehood”, i.e. it is completely illegitimate, since no elections were held, and moreover, the Ukrainian constitution does not allow for the extension of the president’s mandate, referring to the state of war. Putin believes that the current Ukrainian power, the source of which was the 2014 “coup d’état”, is committing crimes against both the Ukrainian and Russian people on a daily basis.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s regime does not protect the interests of the Ukrainian people, but those of “supporters”, which is also evident from the fact that those whose interests he defends and serves even agree to lower the conscription age to below 18, he said. He added that Russia is not fighting the Ukrainian people, but “the neo-Nazi regime.”
Translated and edited by L. Earth
