President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelenskysuggested this Friday that a ceasefire agreement could be reached in the war Ukraine if the territory he currently controls would remain “under the NATO umbrella” and he could negotiate the return of the rest later diplomatically.

“If we want to put an end to the “hot phase” of the war, we need to put NATO under the umbrella territory of Ukraine what we have control over. This needs to be done quickly, and then the rest of the (occupied) territory can be returned through diplomatic channels,” the Ukrainian leader said in an interview with Sky News.

Thus, Zelensky responded to veteran correspondent Stuart Ramsay, who asked the Ukrainian to respond to some media reports that say that one of the plans of US President-elect Donald Trump to end the war in Ukraine may be that Kyiv will cede to Russia the lands annexed by Moscow in exchange for joining NATO.

In this sense, Zelensky commented that No one officially invited them to “join NATO.” only with part of Ukraine” and to ensure that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not return to seize even more Ukrainian territory A truce was necessary, and the Alliance “immediately” covered the part of the country under the control of Kyiv.

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However, he clarified: “The invitation must be extended to Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders, it cannot include only part of the country. Because? Because so you will agree that Ukraine is exactly that part of the territory and that the other side is Russia,” which would be contrary to the Constitution of Ukraine.

In Zelensky’s first interview with British media after Trump’s election victory, the Ukrainian president said that will have to work with the new American president and with his team to have “the greatest support” and admitted that at a meeting last September in New York they had a “very warm, good and constructive” conversation.

As noted SkyNewsAlso Zelensky hints at a ceasefire agreement for the first time this included Russia’s control over parts of Ukrainian territory, as throughout the conflict it had always been reluctant to cede parts of the country to Russia, including Crimea, annexed since 2014, and Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporia, unilaterally declared Russian since September. 2022.

The war in Ukraine has rapidly escalated in recent weeks.especially after the US gave Kyiv the green light to use long-range missiles against military targets on Russian territory; to which Putin has recently responded with numerous attacks and new Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missiles. (EFE)