{"id":90806,"date":"2025-02-23T23:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T23:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/zelensky-open-to-resigning-from-presidency-for-peace-in-ukraine-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2025-02-23T23:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T23:07:07","slug":"zelensky-open-to-resigning-from-presidency-for-peace-in-ukraine-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/zelensky-open-to-resigning-from-presidency-for-peace-in-ukraine-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky open to resigning from presidency for peace in Ukraine | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"flex items-center text-center\"><figcaption class=\"text-3 font-sans uppercase mr-3 whitespace-no-wrap\"><span class=\"ls-art\">Listen\u00a0to\u00a0article<\/span><\/figcaption><audio class=\"h-5 w-60 sm:w-80 rounded-none\" preload=\"metadata\" controlslist=\"noplaybackrate nodownload\" id=\"tts\" controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/attachments\/speech_20250223193858178-OiZbU.mp3\"\/><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Ukraine&#8217;s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday he was willing to give up his position if it meant peace in Ukraine, adding that he could exchange his departure for his country&#8217;s entry into the NATO military alliance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If (it means) peace for Ukraine, if you really need me to leave my post, I am ready,&#8221; an irritated-looking Zelenskiy said when asked during a press conference whether he was ready to leave his post if it meant securing peace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can exchange this for NATO (membership), if that condition is there, immediately,&#8221; the president added.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump has pushed for elections to take place in Ukraine, having branded Zelenskiy a &#8220;dictator&#8221;, an apparent reference to the Ukrainian leader&#8217;s official five-year term running out in 2024. Russia has cited this in the past to assert that he is an illegitimate leader.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian legislation prohibits holding elections during a state of martial law, which Ukraine declared the day Russia invaded in February 2022. Trump also falsely claimed that Zelenskiy has an approval rating of four percent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am not going to be in power for decades, but we will not allow Putin to be in power over the territories of Ukraine either,&#8221; Zelenskiy said on Sunday, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>A poll released this week put Zelenskiy&#8217;s approval ratings at 63%, and he made reference to this when talking about Trump&#8217;s claims on Sunday, calling his false statements &#8220;dangerous&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe it&#8217;s not a mistake, it&#8217;s misinformation that has an impact,&#8221; Zelenskiy said.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskiy said earlier this week Trump was in a &#8220;disinformation bubble&#8221;, angering the US President and his team. On Sunday, he sought to justify the earlier comments. &#8220;(The information) about four percent of Ukrainians supporting me is one of the signals spread by the Russians, that&#8217;s why I said it was a disinformation attack, I didn&#8217;t say it was President Trump,&#8221; Zelenskiy said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s criticism of Zelenskiy came as relations between the two leaders deteriorated sharply in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskiy opposes the idea of elections in a full-scale war, a position backed by his major domestic political opponents.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian president also said he wanted to see Trump as a partner for Ukraine and more than a simply a mediator between Kyiv and Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really want it to be more than just mediation&#8230; that&#8217;s not enough,&#8221; he told a press conference in Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>Minerals deal<\/p>\n<p>Trump has said Ukraine should give the U.S. $500 billion in critical raw materials as payback for aid which Kyiv has already received from the previous Joe Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskiy declined to sign a detailed U.S. proposal last week that would have seen Washington receiving 50% of Ukraine&#8217;s critical minerals, which include graphite, uranium, titanium and lithium, the latter a key component in electric car batteries.<\/p>\n<p>He has said he wants to do a deal, but that it should offer security guarantees for Ukraine in return.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, he said US and Ukrainian teams were working on a deal and Trump said he expects a deal will be signed soon.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Zelenskiy said at the press conference that he rejected the idea that Ukraine owed the US\u00a0$500 billion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There cannot be (any) format which makes us debtors for the old (aid given).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskiy said earlier this week that Washington had supplied his country with $67 billion in weapons and $31.5 billion in direct budget support throughout the nearly three-year war with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will not sign what 10 generations of Ukrainians will be repaying,&#8221; Zelenskiy said of the minerals deal.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine&#8217;s economy minister Yuliia Svyrydenko said on Sunday the 18% of Ukraine under Russian occupation contained about $350 billion of critical raw materials, adding that Ukraine is conducting additional geological research to update decades-old information.<\/p>\n<p>The president&#8217;s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, said on Sunday that he had held constructive new talks with senior U.S. officials on a deal to develop Ukrainian minerals.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen\u00a0to\u00a0article Ukraine&#8217;s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday he was willing to give up his position if it meant peace in Ukraine, adding that he could exchange his departure for his country&#8217;s entry into the NATO military alliance. &#8220;If (it means) peace for Ukraine, if you really need me to leave 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