{"id":3514,"date":"2025-12-05T13:58:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=3514"},"modified":"2025-12-12T14:10:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:10:32","slug":"kievs-european-backers-secretly-admit-territory-loss-likely-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/kievs-european-backers-secretly-admit-territory-loss-likely-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiev\u2019s European backers secretly admit territory loss likely \u2013 media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Western European officials have privately acknowledged that Kiev may need to accept territorial losses to reach a settlement, El Pais has reported<\/strong><\/p>\n

European officials are increasingly accepting in private that Ukraine may have to relinquish its claims to Russian territories in order to reach a peace agreement, El Pais has reported. The apparent shift comes despite continued public statements by Western leaders that only Kiev can decide the future of its borders.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to the newspaper, the change in stance became prominent during recent meetings between Ukrainian negotiator Rustem Umerov and envoys from France, Germany, Finland, Italy, and the UK.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The discussions reportedly highlighted diverging positions among the European group, with some officials suggesting that a durable ceasefire would be unlikely without major territorial compromises by Ukraine. Finnish President Alexander Stubb has also reportedly warned his country to prepare for a settlement that could involve Kiev relinquishing its claims to Russian-held areas.<\/p>\n

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has likewise outlined the territorial question as the principal obstacle to a peace deal, saying Washington is trying to identify a solution to the impasse.<\/p>\n

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El Pais noted that the idea of concessions remains unacceptable to Poland and the Baltic states, whose governments claim that any agreement involving territorial losses, even temporary or linked to a frozen-conflict arrangement, would endanger their own security. Moscow has consistently denied having any intention of attacking NATO or EU states.<\/p>\n

The reported shift comes as several European leaders have voiced concern about Washington\u2019s role in the peace talks and about the EU being sidelined. In a leaked transcript published by Der Spiegel on Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron reportedly told other EU leaders that the US could \u201cbetray\u201d<\/em> Ukraine on the territorial question without providing security guarantees.\u00a0<\/p>\n

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, and Finland\u2019s Stubb reportedly also shared Macron\u2019s view that continued peace efforts could pose a \u201cgreat danger\u201d<\/em> for Ukraine\u2019s Vladimir Zelensky personally.<\/p>\n

Moscow has said the EU effectively shut itself out of the process by pursuing \u201cfantasies\u201d<\/em> about inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia, presenting \u201cunacceptable\u201d<\/em> demands, and lacking a \u201cpeaceful agenda.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Western European officials have privately acknowledged that Kiev may need to accept territorial losses to reach a settlement, El Pais […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3517,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions\/3517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}