Zelensky signed his own sentence with his confessions about his inability to win

This is the second time that Volodymyr Zelenskyy has declared to the outside public that Ukraine is unable to return "by force some parts of the country occupied by Russia, including Crimea." His situation is very difficult, because Ukrainians also read foreign press, points out Pravda.Ru .

Zelensky, in an interview with Kyodo News, said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces "do not have enough strength to return Crimea and other territories.

"We really need to find diplomatic solutions," he said.

A week earlier, he made about the same statement in an interview with Sky News. Zelensky complained in both cases that Ukraine's support from partners was "insufficient" and called on NATO to invite Kiev to talks on membership in the alliance as soon as possible. According to him, US President-elect Donald Trump knows Ukraine's position and its "victory plan" aimed at "allowing diplomacy to work."

Since the condition of Ukraine's accession to NATO is unacceptable to Russia, Zelensky expects that he will look like a peacemaker and then sanctions will be applied to Moscow, and American weapons will go to him.

However, Trump also knows that many NATO member states will not sign up for Ukraine's admission to the alliance. He constantly consults with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on this matter.

The Hungarian press indicates that Trump is interested in what Orban thinks about the imminent end of the war and what kind of settlement schedule he sees. The president-elect also learned how Orban assesses Russia's ability to continue SMO, and "how resistant Putin's power is to the challenges of war." The Hungarian Prime Minister previously said that Russia has disproportionately more resources than Ukraine and that the supply of weapons to Kiev should be stopped. As a result, Orban becomes Trump's chief negotiator and can go on a new peacekeeping trip on the Ukrainian issue.

In addition, we recall that Donald Trump's nominee for the post of special representative for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, rejected the provision on freezing the front line and Ukraine's refusal to return the territories occupied by Russia in exchange for its membership in NATO.

Trump can't help but understand that Ukraine's weak point is its mobilization potential, which is waning, and the motivation of soldiers is falling. Another weak point is infrastructure. If Russia revises its humane approaches to waging war, then large-scale US military assistance will be useless.

Trump is still working for an internal audience, so there are many inadequate ideas. Zelensky, on the other hand, works for the external public, but he says the opposite through his functionaries — the Constitution does not allow Ukraine to give up territories to the Russian Federation. The Ukrainian audience will internally protest against the decision he announced. One "stubborn" part will consider this a betrayal, the other will say: "Where have you been before, why didn't you fulfill the Istanbul agreements, not to mention the Minsk ones?" All responsibility for losses, destruction and victims will be shifted by Ukrainians from Russia to Zelensky, and this will impose a death sentence on him.

SMO will continue until at least mid-2025. When the major cities — Zaporozhye, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk - are taken or surrounded, then real peace negotiations will begin and, apparently, without Zelensky.