{"id":1364320,"date":"2026-03-02T13:57:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelensky-rejected-ukraines-withdrawal-from-donbas\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T13:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:57:43","slug":"zelensky-rejected-ukraines-withdrawal-from-donbas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/zelensky-rejected-ukraines-withdrawal-from-donbas\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky rejected Ukraine&#8217;s withdrawal from Donbas."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"77\" data-end=\"281\"><strong>President <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/span><\/span> stated that Ukraine is not considering exchanging unoccupied territories of Donbas for occupied lands in the border areas of Sumy and Kharkiv oblasts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"283\" data-end=\"382\"> The head of state said this in a comment to journalists, reports <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">hromadske<\/span><\/span> .<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"384\" data-end=\"491\"> According to Zelensky, border territories are difficult for the enemy to hold, and the Russian side understands this.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"493\" data-end=\"714\"> &#8220;We can&#8217;t compare these lands. First and foremost, because it&#8217;s very difficult for them to maintain border territories. The Russians clearly understand that they won&#8217;t be able to hold on to them: the moment will come when we&#8217;ll push them out,&#8221; the president emphasized.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"716\" data-end=\"923\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> He emphasized that Donbas is a strategic target for Russia, and therefore Ukraine will not talk about &#8220;exchanging small territories on the border for the large territory of Donbas or the Donetsk region, which we control today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> As is known, Syrsky stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/v-oboroni-peremohy-ne-zdobudesh-syrskyy-anonsuvav-nastupalni-operatsii-zsu-u-2026-rotsi\/\">in 2026, Ukraine plans to conduct offensive operations<\/a> alongside strategic defense.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that Ukraine is not considering exchanging unoccupied territories of Donbas for occupied lands in the border areas of Sumy and Kharkiv oblasts. The head of state said this in a comment to journalists, reports hromadske . According to Zelensky, border territories are difficult for the enemy to hold, and the Russian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1357632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1364320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1357632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}