{"id":3676,"date":"2025-02-24T15:58:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T15:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/republicanstradetoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/zelensky-says-he-is-ready-to-resign-as-ukraine-president-if-it-brought-peace\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T15:58:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T15:58:30","slug":"zelensky-says-he-is-ready-to-resign-as-ukraine-president-if-it-brought-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/republicanstradetoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/zelensky-says-he-is-ready-to-resign-as-ukraine-president-if-it-brought-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky says he is \u2018ready\u2019 to resign as Ukraine president if it brought peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm7hsiyoa00g12bp3evmy4c9y@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that he was \u201cready\u201d to resign as leader if it meant peace in his country, suggesting he could swap it for NATO membership.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm7hsnkcq00073b6mwrt1106l@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Asked at a press conference if he was ready to quit if it ensures peace for Ukraine, Zelensky said: \u201cIf [it guarantees] peace for Ukraine, if you really need me to resign, I am ready. I can exchange it for NATO.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm7hsnkcq00083b6mo42daasq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The Ukrainian president previously said his country\u2019s army will need to double in size if NATO denies it membership to the alliance. Earlier this month, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said that Kyiv joining NATO was unrealistic.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm7hsnkcq00093b6m7wc3au1z@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Zelensky\u2019s comments follow an escalating spat between Zelensky and Donald Trump after the US president falsely accused Ukraine of starting the conflict.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm7hsnkcq000a3b6med7weuqq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            When Zelensky hit back \u2013 accusing the US president of being in a \u201cdisinformation space\u201d &#8211; Trump called Zelensky a \u201cdictator,\u201d straining ties at a pivotal moment in the conflict.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that he was \u201cready\u201d to resign as leader if it meant peace in his country, suggesting he could swap it for NATO membership. Asked at a press conference if he was ready to quit if it ensures peace for Ukraine, Zelensky said: \u201cIf [it guarantees] peace for Ukraine, if&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/republicanstradetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/republicanstradetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/republicanstradetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/republicanstradetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/republicanstradetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/republicanstradetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/republicanstradetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/republicanstradetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/republicanstradetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/republicanstradetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}