US presidential hopeful DeSantis calls for truce in Ukraine – POLITICO

Florida’s Republican governor and wannabe presidential candidate Ron DeSantis stated Tuesday he supported the concept of a ceasefire in Ukraine — a transfer lengthy opposed by Kyiv, which has set reclaiming its misplaced territory as a precondition for any talks with Russia.

“It’s in everyone’s curiosity to attempt to get to a spot the place we will have a ceasefire,” DeSantis stated in an interview with the Japanese, English-language weekly Nikkei Asia.

“You don’t need to find yourself in like a [Battle of] Verdun state of affairs, the place you simply have mass casualties, mass expense and find yourself with a stalemate,” he added, referring to the longest battle of World Conflict I, by which round 700,000 have been killed.

The thought is more likely to get the chilly shoulder from Kyiv, the place President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated a ceasefire would solely permit Russia to regroup its forces, and make the battle last more.

In his 10-point peace plan introduced final November at a G20 summit, Zelenskyy set the restoration of Ukraine’s territorial integrity as a precondition for peace, stressing that time was “lower than negotiations.”

DeSantis’ remarks are the newest in a sequence of controversial feedback made by the Florida governor — who has but to formally announce his bid for the 2024 presidential election — on the battle in Ukraine.

Final month, he sparked fury even inside his personal Republican Get together after calling the battle a “territorial dispute,” and stated changing into “additional entangled” in Ukraine was not a part of the U.S.’s “important nationwide pursuits.”