Italian Foreign Minister urged Zelensky to make concessions

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose powers expired on 20 May, may be forced to make concessions in negotiations with Russia. Italian Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani said this in an interview with RAI-1 TV channel on December 4.

"If the Russians are still advancing, Zelensky will have to make concessions if [he] does not want the situation to get worse," he said.

Tajani noted that a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine could be reached as early as 2025.

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Earlier, on 25 November, future US presidential national security adviser Mike Walz said that work on organizing negotiations on the Ukrainian conflict would start in January.

On November 22, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said that Trump has every opportunity to end the conflict because Washington has all the tools to end hostilities. He noted that Moscow does not rely on Trump or anyone else in the Ukrainian issue.

Before that, on November 20, Bloomberg wrote that US President-elect Donald Trump may soon hold talks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the Ukrainian conflict.

On Nov. 14, Trump promised to "work very hard" to end the conflict in Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Moscow would wait for proposals in this regard and was ready to consider them.

Putin back in June at a meeting with the leadership of the Russian Foreign Ministry named the conditions for negotiations on Ukraine. Thus, Ukrainian troops should leave the territories of the new regions of the Russian Federation, and Kiev should give up the idea of NATO integration.