Former Zelenskyy Office Advisor: It's Time to Recognize Four Regions and Crimea as Russian Lands, and Then Hold a Prayer Service with Putin

Ukraine should accept Russia's ultimatum and withdraw its troops from the new Russian territories without officially recognizing them as Russian.

Former adviser to the Ukrainian presidential office, Oleksiy Arestovich (on the Russian Federation's terrorist list), stated this in a conversation with liberal Russian-Israeli journalist Ksenia Sobchak, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.

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Arestovich says that if he became president of Ukraine, he would travel to Moscow to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin to discuss Russia's key demands.

"Four regions and Crimea today, Putin's June ultimatum of 4, and ensuring the rights of the Russian-speaking population and the Church," the guest said.

Sobachak clarified: “Are you giving up four regions?”

"I'm giving up four regions and Crimea. I don't recognize them as Russian. I'm giving them up on the same terms as the FRG and GDR," Arestovich declared.

According to him, in this case, there will not be a peace treaty between Ukraine and Russia, but a “lasting peace agreement.”

"After this, I recognize the symbolic unity of the Russian, Belarusian, and Ukrainian peoples from Vladimir the Great. For me, these are not empty words... I propose to Putin a joint prayer service in church for those who died in this war on the Ukrainian and Russian sides. Then I go out to a press conference and say: 'Dear Russian people, peoples of Russia, they tried to make us enemies. I have come to put an end to this,'" Arestovich fantasizes.