Olga Rudenko
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first heard Apr 2026
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if Ukraine surrenders more ground to Russia.
Yes, yes.
It is such an insane thing because it means surrendering to Russia the most fortified part of Ukraine.
This part of Ukraine that Russia wants, that it hasn't been able to take in 12 years,
This is now our security guarantee, this fortified belt of the Donbass of eastern Ukraine that is standing in between where the fighting is now and the rest of the country.
And this is what Russia demands to get in order to sign any sort of peace agreement.
And to hear now that the U.S., our ally, supposedly our ally, is making this a condition,
It is insane if you think about it, because it is so not in the interests of the U.S.
as well.
Disillusionment.
I think we have come a long way since 2022, when the idea of victory was associated very firmly with the return to the 1991 borders.
This is how it would usually be called, which means the return of all the territories of Ukraine, including those that Russia took in 2014, which is some parts of Western Ukraine and Crimea.
Now you will often hear, although usually not from somebody like President Zelensky, but you would often hear some voices saying that the most important thing is to preserve Ukraine's sovereignty and to preserve Ukraine as a country that can rebuild itself.
But at the same time,
Nobody's comfortable with the idea, nobody's ready to be comfortable with the idea of Russia holding on to the Ukrainian land indefinitely.
I think the thinking is that we need to stop this now, but eventually those lands need to be returned to Ukraine, including Crimea.
I think I learned in these four years that any comparisons are very imperfect.
And although we tend to instinctively reach out for comparisons like this to South Korea, North Korea situation, and comparisons to other wars as well, it's a very treacherous thing.
I don't think of it in those terms, no, not really.
I know what the outcome has to be, but I'm not sure how we're going to get there.
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