Podolyak: Media of Ukraine's partners keep implying that Ukraine alone must make concessions

A recent article in the Economist discussed the possibility of having a ceasefire on January 20, 2025, the day U.S. President Donald Trump is inaugurated, and having elections on May 25, 2025. Mihaylo Podolyak, advisor of Ukrainian President Zelensky, minced no words in his comment: 

"The war today is in a hot phase... a high-intensity war... I see no ground to talk about the beginning of a political season or process... When Western media, citing anonymous sources, spread some information, they never explain why things must happen as said. Facts must be obvious to Ukraine's international partners, particularly the fact that the war is continuing with high intensity. 

I have seen many similar publications, citing some sources about the possibility of freezing the war and starting negotiations. The sources are always anonymous, and the publications themselves are always devoid of logic. Because... all these texts are based on the premise that Ukraine must be forced to do something, to make some concessions... And the authors do not even understand the premise around which they build all their arguments. All these publications imply that the war must be stopped at the expense only of the country that was attacked. In other words, that Ukraine must be forced to stop resisting.

At the same time, please notice that in these publications, there is never any analysis how to force Russia to do anything. I find strange the position that everything must be achieved at the expense of the victim rather than of the aggressor. And I find it amoral."