Samuel Ramani: „Täuschen Sie sich nicht, die Ukraine wird Putin nicht kapitulieren“

**From The Telegraph:**

Yesterday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed to “do everything” to end Russia’s war against his country by “diplomatic means” in 2025. Zelensky conceded the return of Donald Trump as US president will [hasten the end of the Ukraine war](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/11/16/war-will-end-sooner-with-trump-in-white-house-says-zelensky/).

Zelensky’s comments raised eyebrows as he departed from his typically defiant tone. At the February 2024 Munich Security Conference, Zelensky vowed that Ukraine would defend itself “with or without” allied support. At the UN General Assembly in late September, Zelensky presented Ukraine’s “victory plan” and warned against peace proposals that called for territorial concessions to Russia.

Has Mr Trump’s [pledge to suspend US military assistance](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/10/17/donald-trump-blames-zelensky-ukraine-war/) to Ukraine shattered Zelensky’s resolve to fight against Russian aggression? The evidence points resoundingly to the contrary. Ukrainian officials are acutely aware of the pitfalls of negotiating with Russia and express hope that once Putin’s insincerity about pursuing peace is exposed, they will receive the support they need to prevail.

Ukraine’s confidence that Russia will act in bad faith is born out of recent experience. After signing the Minsk II Accords in 2015, Russia continued to escalate hostilities in eastern Ukraine. In September 2017, Ukraine estimated that Russia had deployed 6,000 regular troops and 40,000 proxy militia forces to Donbas. 

Every three days, a Ukrainian soldier perished on the front lines of the so-called “frozen conflict” in Donbas. The coincidence in timing between Russia’s participation in the March 2022 Istanbul talks and its perpetration of the Bucha massacre confirms Putin’s disdain for peace.

Ukraine is pre-emptively warning its Western partners of the inevitability of Russian betrayal. Kyiv’s reaction to Olaf Scholz’s call with Putin on Friday underscores this strategy. Zelensky derisively warned that the German chancellor’s phone call [opened a “Pandora’s box](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/11/15/olaf-scholz-call-vladimir-putin-end-ukraine-war/)” for the West. Dmytro Kuleba, the former Ukrainian foreign minister, warned that Scholz’s call would erode Ukrainian goodwill towards Germany and reaffirm Putin’s belief that the West will eventually capitulate.

Despite military setbacks in Donetsk, Ukraine is doing all it can to stay in the fight. In recent days, the Ukrainian Armed Forces thwarted Russia’s advance on the Kharkiv battleground of Kupiansk. Russia’s 50,000-man army in Kursk, [which includes North Korean soldiers](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/26/russian-soldiers-complain-north-korean-recruits-ukraine/), has failed to dislodge Ukrainian forces from their entrenched positions. 

Russian casualties are now at their highest levels since the start of the Ukraine war – 1,500 men are killed or injured each day. Even if Trump can engage Russia in talks on ending the war, the Kremlin will not enter these negotiations from a position of unbridled strength.

**Column Link:** [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/16/make-no-mistake-ukraine-wont-surrender-to-putin/](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/16/make-no-mistake-ukraine-wont-surrender-to-putin/)

So if Zelensky is now kissing Trump’s arse and going for a deal with Putler, he has lost my support! Then Ukraine shouldn’t be in NATO either! Because someone who flies his flag to the wind is wrong to be in NATO!
So I really hope he stays strong and doesn’t make a deal with Putler, no matter what that criminal and traitor Trump says!

The west must do everything to make sure Putin greatly regrets his decisions.