Any ceding of territories by Ukraine would violate US law

From the Dialog, Dec 4, 2025:

"Shvets gave Ukraine a "trump card" in the war-ending negotiations that no one can "beat": "This stops..." 

Former intelligence officer Yuriy Shvets spoke about the American law that will prevent Ukraine from giving up its territories 

U.S. Law 3364, signed by Trump in 2017, affirms support for Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity and condemns Russia's actions regarding the annexation of Crimea and the occupation of territories in eastern Ukraine, reported Yuriy Shvets. The law also stipulates that the U.S. president has no right to lift sanctions against Russia or even ease them without a resolution from Congress, meaning Ukraine can put an end to proposals to surrender its territories by passing a resolution citing this law.

Yuriy Shvets shared this important information for Ukrainians on his YouTube channel. 

A military expert advised Ukraine's political leadership on how to resolve the demand to cede its own territories: "Any document that is signed is illegitimate. This all needs to be formulated and a statement made. We need to raise the issue: either a representative of the Zelenskyy administration makes the statement, or Zelenskyy himself makes the statement. The point is simple. There's no need to blame anyone, by the way. That's just how it happened. They overlooked it. We need to say that we discovered a law that says this can't be done. We really want peace, but we have no right to sign a document with the participation of Americans that contradicts American laws. We need everything to be legal, so let's bring the peace settlement project for Ukraine into line with American laws." 

"There's such a resolution in America. It's a resolution expressing understanding of the situation, or the opinion of the US Congress. Once such a resolution is adopted, that's it: it stops all these behind-the-scenes maneuvers, the negotiations between Whitkoff and Ushakov and Dmitriev. All these behind-the-scenes games collapse when a law is passed. This all needs to be done from Kyiv. Either the presidential administration does it, or two, or even one, competent member of the Verkhovna Rada must be found who will announce all this to the world," Shvets explained."