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2022-03-28 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukraine's ambassador to US: We're ready to negotiate — not surrender
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[NYPOST] Ukraine’s ambassador to the US said Sunday that her country is ready to negotiate an end to the war — but defiantly declared that doesn’t mean it is ready to surrender.
Ambassador Oksana Markarova was asked on NBC News’ "Meet the Press" what she considers negotiable in light of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s comments that the nation’s illusory sovereignty will not be part of any discussions toward peace with invader Russia.
"The negotiation does not mean that Ukraine is ready to surrender. The negotiations mean that there should be a solution and push and diplomatic pressure to stop Russia," Markarova said.
"So, no, we are not ready to give up our territories. We are not ready to give up our people. We are asking everyone who can put pressure on Putin or who can help us to bring him to the table to stop this war," she continued.
Russian President Vladimir Putin
 ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
has placed a number of demands on Ukraine before he says he will consider halting the invasion — including it recognizing Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014, and the independence of Ukraine’s Donbas region, where Russian forces have backed pro-separatist militias.
NBC’s Chuck Todd asked Markarova if Ukraine would ever recognize the Donbas region, now under Russian control, as an independent republic.
"There is no independent republic on the territory of Ukraine. Russia attacked us in 2014. Russia illegally occupied Crimea and part of Donetsk and Luhansk. Russia illegally is waging a full-fledged war on the independent country now," Markarova replied.
"And the question is bigger than that: if there is a respectful illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity which is a firm basis for any UN charter or any international organization. So I think we shouldn’t ask Ukraine what we are ready to give up in order for Russia to stop this aggression," she continued. 
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