Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind. ), a Ukrainian-born lawmaker, said that Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, should cede land to end the conflict.
“I don’t understand how [Ukraine] could be in a position to ask to keep its land,” Spartz said to The Telegraph in Indiana before a recent town hall that if they won the war it would be different.
As I said two years ago, winning wars as quickly as possible is the best way to go. She said that democracies don’t usually do well when they take as long as necessary.
She also criticised Zelenskyy and said that Ukrainians should not vote for him, warning them that “they will lose the rest the country” if he were to be reelected.
Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian minister of defense, met with the heads of the British and French military forces on Saturday in Kyiv to discuss the possible deployment of a multinational force for peacekeeping to Ukraine despite President Donald Trump’s reluctance to offer security guarantees.
Trump, who has been pressing for a truce in the war in Ukraine, has temporarily halted military aid to Kyiv and has said repeatedly that the country won’t join NATO.