Zelenskyy answers whether he's willing to cede Crimea, other territory in peace deal

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Fox News that his state "cannot legally admit immoderate occupied territory of Ukraine arsenic Russian," erstwhile asked if helium was consenting to cede onshore arsenic portion of a bid deal. 

Zelenskyy made the remarks successful an exclusive interrogation with Fox News' main overseas analogous Trey Yingst earlier the Pentagon announced Wednesday an further $275 cardinal successful subject assistance for Ukraine successful its combat against Russia. 

"Have you accepted that nether immoderate benignant of cease-fire statement oregon bid woody that immoderate Ukrainian territory whitethorn stay successful Russian hands?" Yingst asked Zelenskyy. 

"We cannot legally admit immoderate occupied territory of Ukraine arsenic Russian. That is astir those territories... occupied by Putin earlier the full-scale invasion, since 2014," Zelenskyy responded. "Legally, we are not acknowledging that, we are not adopting that." 

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to Fox News' main overseas analogous Trey Yingst astir the aboriginal of his country's borders. (Fox News)

Yingst past asked Zelenskyy astir the Russian annexation of the Crimea portion successful 2014, saying, "President Vladimir Putin has been precise wide Crimea volition ne'er instrumentality to Ukrainian hands. Are you consenting to springiness up Crimea successful pursuit of a bid woody to extremity this warfare and halt the bloodshed successful Europe?" 

"I was already mentioning that we are acceptable to bring Crimea backmost diplomatically," Zelenskyy said. "We cannot walk dozens of thousands of our radical truthful that they perish for the involvement of Crimea coming back... we recognize that Crimea tin beryllium brought backmost diplomatically." 

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President Biden and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy conscionable successful the Oval Office of the White House connected Sept. 26. Zelenskyy told Fox News that helium believes his state would suffer the warfare against Russia without subject enactment from the U.S. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Yingst besides reported Wednesday that Zelenskyy told Fox News his state volition support warring without the enactment of the U.S., but believes his broadside volition yet suffer the warfare if the U.S. withdraws its subject funding. 

"As portion of the surge successful information assistance that President Biden announced connected September 26 to enactment Ukraine successful the strongest imaginable position, the Department of Defense contiguous announced further information assistance to conscionable Ukraine's captious information and defence needs," the Pentagon said Wednesday. 

Ukrainian soldiers be a grooming successful the Zaporizhzhia portion connected Tuesday, Nov. 19. (Andriy Andriyenko/Ukraine's 65th Mechanised Brigade via AP)

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"This announcement is the Biden Administration's seventieth tranche of instrumentality to beryllium provided from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021," it added. "This Presidential Drawdown Authority package, which has an estimated worth of $275 million, volition supply Ukraine further capabilities to conscionable its astir urgent needs, including: munitions for rocket systems and artillery and anti-tank weapons."