Zelenskyy rejects Kissinger plan to concede territories

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday strongly rebuffed those in the West who have suggested Ukraine cede control of areas occupied by Russian forces for the sake of reaching a peace agreement.

Those “great geopoliticians” who suggest this are disregarding the interests of ordinary Ukrainians – “the millions of those who actually live on the territory that they propose exchanging for an illusion of peace,” he said late Wednesday in his nightly video address to the nation.

“We always have to think of the people and remember that values are not just words.”

Zelenskyy compared those who argue for giving Russia a piece of Ukraine to those who in 1938 ceded territory to Hitler in hopes of preventing World War II.

He also said his army was facing the fiercest attack by Russian forces, who in some places have many more weapons and soldiers.

He pleaded for even more military assistance from the West, "without exception and restrictions. Enough to win".