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EU foreign ministers discuss mobilizing large funds to help Kiev

The majority of Ukrainians will not accept any compromise with Russia that the new US administration has tried to push through, a leading Ukrainian pollster has said

Nov 13, 2024 04:05 123

< strong>Next week, the foreign ministers of the EU countries will discuss the possibilities of mobilizing large funds to help Kiev, including from frozen Russian assets, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Szykorski said on TVN24, TASS reported. quoted by BTA.

"What lies ahead is perhaps a key [meeting] of the EU Foreign Affairs Council next week, because there may or may not be very important decisions about whether we are ready to provide real funds, for example from frozen Russian assets, to support Ukraine, are we ready to give Ukraine a year to strengthen its negotiating positions," the minister said.

On November 12, the head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell, said in Warsaw that the community should consider the possibility of increasing support for Ukraine after the victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential elections, TASS recalls.

The majority of Ukrainians will not accept any compromise with Russia that the new administration in the US has tried to push through. This is what Anton Hrushetsky, executive director of the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, told BNR.

The institute published today the results of a survey conducted last month. According to her, 58% of Ukrainians remain against territorial concessions, despite the setbacks on the front in recent months and the ongoing bombing of Kiev and other cities:

"On the one hand, Ukrainians are against peace at any cost, there is no public pressure on the government in this direction. On the other hand, Ukrainians are flexible, willing to postpone the liberation of some areas for the future, specifically Donbass and Crimea, but only in exchange for real and firm security guarantees.

These guarantees could be NATO membership or something else, such as enough weapons to prevent future Russian aggression," Grushetsky said.

In an interview for the program "Saturday 150" he was adamant that public opinion in Ukraine would in no case accept the Kremlin's other territorial claims:

"Certainly a part of the people are so tired of the war that they would accept even a separation from Kherson and Zaporozhye, but these people are an insignificant minority. The majority see these cities as our fortresses and will not abandon them even if they receive security guarantees for the rest of Ukraine," the Ukrainian sociologist also said.