‘We Don’t Have the Strength’: Zelensky, Acknowledging Fatigue of War, Declares His Country Is Unable To Retake Crimea, Donbas

Ukraine’s Army battles it out in the country’s east as pressures build for a diplomatic reshuffling of the deck.

AP/Michel Euler
President Macron, center, President Trump, right, and President Zelensky leave after their meeting at the Elysee Palace, December 7, 2024 at Paris. AP/Michel Euler

The pace of world events, in Ukraine and elsewhere, is running circles around the Biden presidency, which will be judged as one of the most incompetent in American history. 

In an interview with French newspaper Le Parisien on Wednesday, President Zelensky said that while “Putin needs to be put in his place,” the Ukrainian territories of Crimea and the Donbas “are now controlled by the Russians.” Declared he: “We don’t have the strength to bring them back.”

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