{"id":20859,"date":"2025-04-25T08:48:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T08:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/red-line-on-crimea-isnt-just-zelenskys-its-ukraines\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T08:48:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T08:48:55","slug":"red-line-on-crimea-isnt-just-zelenskys-its-ukraines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/red-line-on-crimea-isnt-just-zelenskys-its-ukraines\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Line on Crimea Isn\u2019t Just Zelensky\u2019s. It\u2019s Ukraine\u2019s."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When the Trump administration proposed a peace plan that would recognize Russian rule of the Crimean Peninsula, the response from Kyiv was a loud and unequivocal no.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Doing so <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/23\/world\/europe\/ukraine-cease-fire-talks-london.html\" title=\"\">would violate the nation\u2019s Constitution<\/a>, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine told reporters. It would never happen, he declared, not even in exchange for the end of the bloody war raging mostly away from the disputed territory that has been in Russian hands for more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Zelensky\u2019s red line has a hard political reality holding it in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Inside Ukraine, formal recognition of Russian control of Crimea would be widely viewed as a dangerous concession to a duplicitous rival and an abandonment of Ukrainians still living in the region. It would also dash hopes for reunification of the families separated by the 2014 occupation \u2014 when many pro-Ukrainian residents fled while their elderly or pro-Russian relatives remained behind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere is not a single Ukrainian politician who would vote to legalize the occupation of Ukrainian territories,\u201d said Kostyantyn Yeliseyev, former presidential deputy chief of staff. \u201cFor members of Parliament, it would be worse than political suicide,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Trump expressed bewilderment and frustration at Mr. Zelensky\u2019s reaction on Wednesday, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114388111141848447\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">posting on social media<\/a> that Crimea was \u201clost years ago\u201d and suggesting that the Ukrainian leader was prolonging the war over a pipe dream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe can have Peace or, he can fight for another three years before losing the whole Country,\u201d Mr. Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The seizure of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014 began when Russian soldiers \u2014 wearing masks and no insignia on their uniforms \u2014 seized government buildings and military bases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The operation was mostly bloodless; Ukrainian soldiers withdrew or switched sides. But that invasion set in motion a Russian effort to capture territory in eastern Ukraine using its army and proxy forces, starting a conflict that killed about 14,000 soldiers and civilians on both sides before Russia\u2019s all-out invasion in 2022 triggered a broader war, according to the United Nations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That war continues to rage as over the past week the Trump administration has repeatedly threatened to walk away from the peace process. On Thursday, Russian forces launched what appeared to be the deadliest <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/24\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-missiles-airstrikes.html\" title=\"\">missile and drone attack<\/a> on the Ukrainian capital since last summer, according to the Ukrainian authorities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a post on X, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/1915527013164888555\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Zelensky said later<\/a> that Russia had also attacked 150 frontline positions using the \u201cmassive strike\u201d as cover. He said the \u201csituation was toughest\u201d in the area of Pokrovsk, a key rail and road hub for Ukraine\u2019s Army.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In peace talks mediated by the United States, Ukraine had hoped to leave control of Crimea out of the discussion. It has sought an immediate cease-fire, freezing the conflict along the existing frontline, as well as security guarantees against renewed attacks, such as the deployment of a European peacekeeping force or eventual membership in NATO.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the Trump administration rejected that approach this week. Its proposal included an acceptance of Russia\u2019s rule in Crimea and a prohibition on Ukraine joining NATO. In return, hostilities would be halted along the current front lines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In private conversations, Ukrainian officials have been open to stopping the fighting at the front line. Given Russia\u2019s current momentum on the battlefield, they concede that outcome could favor Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">More important than where a cease-fire line falls, Ukrainian officials have said, are guarantees that Russia will not use a pause in fighting to regroup and rearm for new attacks. Russia has also warned that Ukraine could use a cease-fire to rearm, but it has largely welcomed the American proposal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the peace talks appeared more likely to founder over Crimean recognition than the frontline truce, said Mykhailo Samus, director of the New Geopolitics Research Network, a research institution in Kyiv. \u201cThe issue of Crimea is the primary reason for their likely failure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Crimea, with a population of about 2 million people, joined the rest of Ukraine in voting for independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. But the region maintained close ties to Russia through its tourism industry, and a majority of the population were Russian speakers. Russian nationalists had claimed the area since soon after the Soviet breakup.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Memories of the annexation are still raw in Ukraine. Recognition of Russian control is also opposed by an organization representing Crimean Tatars, an ethnic group that has deep roots on the peninsula and has faced political retaliation, according to human rights groups.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cCrimea is the homeland of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people and an integral part of Ukraine,\u201d wrote Refat Chubarov, head of the Mejlis, a council of the Crimean Tatars, in a social media post. \u201cNo one \u2014 under any circumstances \u2014 can decide the fate of Crimea except the Ukrainian state and the Crimean Tatar people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Among Ukrainian officials, negotiating Crimea\u2019s status is seen as politically risky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Kyiv, officials recall that predecessors who signed a lease extension to a Russian naval base on Crimea in 2010, long before the war began, were nonetheless prosecuted later for treason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And Ukrainians note that recognition would violate principles in post-World War II Europe of opposing the shifting of borders by force.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cNo Ukrainian president will ever have the authority to recognize Crimea as it was seized by force as part of Russia,\u201d said Oleksandra Matviichuk, a Ukrainian human rights lawyer who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Gauging public opinion inside Crimea is difficult. After Russia\u2019s takeover, many residents voiced support in interviews and posts on social media for joining Russia, but reliable polling is scarce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The European Union\u2019s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, has said the bloc opposes formal recognition of Russian sovereignty over Crimea. Turkey has also been a staunch opponent of recognition, in solidarity with the Tatar population and for security concerns about a recognized Russian military presence on the peninsula.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During Mr. Trump\u2019s first term, his administration, too, had issued a formal statement opposing recognition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The 2018 statement, known as the Crimea Declaration, said the United States would withhold recognition, just as it had of the Soviet occupation of the Baltic States of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia during the Cold War, a policy that eased those nations\u2019 bids for independence in the late 1980s and early 1990s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That declaration said that, \u201cthe United States reaffirms as policy its refusal to recognize the Kremlin\u2019s claims of sovereignty over territory seized by force in contravention of international law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In response to Mr. Trump\u2019s criticism, Mr. Zelensky pointed to the statement in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Anna Lukinova<!-- --> contributed reporting from Kyiv.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/24\/world\/europe\/zelensky-crimea-ceasefire-trump.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Trump administration proposed a peace plan that would recognize Russian rule of the Crimean Peninsula, the response from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[6262,576,114,98,1595,579,6283,113,109,1524,1523],"class_list":["post-20859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-crimea-ukraine","tag-defense-and-military-forces","tag-donald-j","tag-international-relations","tag-kyiv-ukraine","tag-peace-process","tag-tatars-ethnic-group","tag-trump","tag-united-states-international-relations","tag-volodymyr","tag-zelensky"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Red Line on Crimea Isn\u2019t Just Zelensky\u2019s. 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