Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered a New Year address from Kyiv, stating Ukraine will not accept a peace deal that compromises the country's survival despite being exhausted after 1,407 days of full-scale war.
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We want the end of the war — not the end of Ukraine. Ukrainians are exhausted but not prepared to surrender.
Ukraine has held on through 1,407 days of a full-scale war.
A peace agreement is 90 percent ready, with the remaining 10% containing decisive issues that determine the fate of peace, Ukraine and Europe.
Russia has shown no genuine desire to end the war voluntarily and only responds to pressure from others.
Ukraine would only sign a peace agreement backed by binding security guarantees, not a Budapest-style or Minsk-style document.
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