Ukraine may lose 20% of its territory, but gain membership in the EU – ex-NATO commander

Ukraine may also get the prospect of joining the Alliance.

The former commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) James Stavridis predicts that the Russian-Ukrainian war will end with the fact that the president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin will seize 20% of the territory of Ukraine.

Newsweek writes about it.

President-elect Donald Trump previously said that if he were at the negotiating table with Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi, the war between the two countries would be over within 24 hours.

“I hope he (Trump – ed.) will do it, and I think he will do it, put pressure on both sides to come to the negotiating table, and it will be like the end of the Korean War… Putin, unfortunately , will get about 20% of Ukraine, the piece that he now holds, but the rest of Ukraine, 80%, all these resources, the vast majority of the population, they…