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Paisaje invernal con niebla sobre un campo abierto y una carretera vacía junto a una línea de sacos de arena
Imagen alusiva de una línea de frente en pausa en un paisaje invernal de Europa del Este. · Imagen generada para EPM

Zelensky open to freezing front line to move toward a peace deal

Volodymyr Zelensky showed himself willing to freeze the current front line to move toward a peace agreement, with United States security guarantees, help to…

--- The context --- Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has changed the tone he maintained since the start of the conflict. Where the demand for a total withdrawal of Russian troops and the recovery of territorial integrity within the 1991 borders once prevailed, a more pragmatic stance now appears, focused on stopping the war, preserving the survival of the state and protecting the civilian population. --- The facts --- In a television interview in the United States, Zelensky showed himself willing to freeze the current front line if doing so moves toward a peace agreement. He said, in paraphrase of his remarks, that the conflict must be frozen at this moment and that this is the real way to end the war. The front line stretches around 1,000 kilometres and Russian forces control approximately 20% of Ukrainian territory, including the Crimean peninsula, annexed in 2014, and areas of Donbas. --- The positions --- Zelensky argued that staying where the forces are and moving to diplomacy is the minimum now needed from Russia. He welcomed United States President Donald Trump's idea of launching a ceasefire, and defended that any agreement must pass through the country's parliament, because the Ukrainian people are the ones bearing all the losses. He also insisted that United States security guarantees must be present in any peace agreement, alongside partner help to rebuild the country. --- What remains unknown --- The source does not detail the concrete content of those security guarantees or a timetable for negotiating them. Nor does it specify what response Russia would give to a freeze of the current line, or on what terms the future of the territories controlled by Russian forces would be addressed. It also remains unspecified how the return would be handled of the 9.5 million Ukrainians who lost their homes and are now abroad, a figure Zelensky himself linked to reconstruction. --- Unanswered questions --- Would Russia accept stopping the fighting on the current line without new territorial demands? What concrete security guarantees would the United States offer and with what scope would they be written into an agreement? Does the Ukrainian parliament back a freeze of the front on these terms? When would the limitations still affecting the country's military communications be resolved? --- EPM analysis --- The shift matters because it reorders Kyiv's priorities: first stop the deaths and ensure that occupation does not return, then discuss the rest. Zelensky tied that security to external guarantees and to reconstruction, not only to a temporary ceasefire. At the same time, he acknowledged persistent limitations in Starlink, fundamental for military communications, and explained that those failures in recent days prevented responses to several large-scale attacks using Iranian drones, while stressing that those systems are used only to defend civilian lives in cities and towns. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, the willingness to freeze the front marks public recognition that the peace possible today runs through stopping the war rather than immediately recovering all the lost territory. That bet will only have value if the security guarantees are real, verifiable and capable of preventing occupation and deaths from returning. Without that backing, a pause on the current line would be merely a fragile respite, and not the stable end Zelensky says he seeks for his country and for those who lost their homes.
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