{"id":114659,"date":"2024-12-03T13:55:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T09:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=114659"},"modified":"2024-12-03T15:18:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T11:18:56","slug":"wsj-zelenskyy-is-signaling-openness-to-peace-agreement-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/114659\/","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: Zelenskyy is signaling openness to peace agreement talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Kyiv will need about $126 billion in military aid by 2025 to continue fighting the Russian army, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/ukraine-zelensky-russia-war-comments-nato-1b40c55d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WSJ<\/a> writes.<br>\nHowever, the new costs may be prohibitively high for Western countries to &ldquo;politically digest,&rdquo; especially if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his threats to halt U.S. aid to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Zelenskyy is gradually shifting his rhetoric regarding the cessation of hostilities, hinting that Ukraine is &ldquo;ready to stop the fight for territorial recovery in exchange for NATO membership.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>However, there is an obstacle to Zelenskyy&rsquo;s idea: Ukraine&rsquo;s chances of joining NATO in the near future remain slim. As noted, the Ukrainian president&rsquo;s change in rhetoric reflects Ukrainians&rsquo; growing fatigue with the conflict:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Without NATO membership, Kyiv will have no real security guarantees and will be subject to capitulation in any negotiations with Russia,&rdquo; the WSJ writes, adding that many Western officials are skeptical that negotiations will take place while Russia is making progress on the battlefield.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyiv will need about $126 billion in military aid by 2025 to continue fighting the Russian army, the WSJ writes. However, the new costs may be prohibitively high for Western countries to &ldquo;politically digest,&rdquo; especially if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his threats to halt U.S. aid to Ukraine. According to the report, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":114614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,98,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}