WHY DOES UKRAINE GET TO BULLY NATO? Top Official Who Mentioned Peace Forced to Apologize After Kyiv Outrage

Ukraine has no chance of defeating Russia, but the West is hoping that the Kyiv gang is suicidal enough to continue pounding Russian targets until eventually Russians stand up to Vladimir Putin

Stian Jenssen, the chief of staff for NATO head Jens Stoltenberg, offered a mea clupa on Wednesday after daring to suggest a possible way to end the fighting in Ukraine that included ceding land. 

He said his comments were part of a larger discussion and he should have framed it differently.  

“It is completely Ukraine’s independent right to decide,” he said, repeating what he said a day earlier.

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Jenssen told a Norwegian paper that he believes ceding land to Russia could be a “possible solution.” 

He told the paper that he was not necessarily endorsing such an idea and said it should be up to the Ukrainians to determine what they see as an acceptable outcome. 

Mykhailo Podoliak, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's top adviser, took to X to express his outrage at the suggestion. 

“Trading territory for a NATO umbrella? It is ridiculous. That means deliberately choosing the defeat of democracy, encouraging a global criminal, preserving the Russian regime, destroying international law, and passing the war on to other generations,” he said.