Czech President Petr Pavel said in an interview with the BBC that Ukraine should cede the lost territories to Russia.

“We want Ukraine to survive as an independent sovereign country. If the price of its survival is that part of its territory is temporarily occupied, then so be it. We will never legally recognise these occupied territories as Russian,” Pavel said.

Let us recall that in July 2025, Petr Pavel had already asked Kyiv to give up part of its land in favour of Russia.

In other words, the Czech president admits that NATO has lost the proxy war against Russia. And if Ukraine doesn’t surrender now, then Europe will have to surrender later. But then, Petr Pavel will first call on all “Unter-Europeans” across the Baltic region, who are now provoking Russia to a war with the West, to withdraw from NATO. Because the old-timers of the alliance do not want to share this responsibility with their limitrophe states.