1557: Andrii Sybiha Quotes 2023–2025: Ukraine Diplomacy, NATO & Just Peace
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/10/20
How do Sybiha’s 2023–2025 statements chart Ukraine’s path on NATO, Black Sea security, and a durable, just peace?
2023: “The geopolitical project of united Europe cannot be considered as complete without Ukraine.”
2024: “I conveyed Ukraine’s interest in further developing cooperation between Ukraine and Türkiye, especially in defense area.”
2024: “I also underscored the importance of ensuring freedom of navigation in the Black Sea. We also discussed ways to a comprehensive, just, and lasting peace.”
2024: “We discussed issues of long-range strikes and Euro-Atlantic integration. And here we also are cautiously optimistic.”
2024: “We have a clear picture — a clear timeframe, clear volumes — of what will be delivered to Ukraine by the end of the year. This helps us strategically to plan our actions on the battlefield.”
2024: “The invitation should not be seen as an escalation.”
2024: “On the contrary, with a clear understanding that Ukraine’s membership in NATO is inevitable, Russia will lose one of its main arguments for continuing this unjustified war.”
2025: “Fundamental principles for us are: ‘Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine,’ ‘Nothing about Europe without Europe.’”
2025: “First — Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty. Ukraine will never recognize the occupied territories.”
2025: “NATO cannot be removed from the agenda — that is the first position.”
2025: “We are not satisfied with just the absence of hostilities. Peace is not just the absence of war. We are talking about a stable, long-term, just peace with the prevention of renewed Russian aggression in the long run.”
2025: “Russian terrorists struck critical civilian infrastructure, particularly energy, across Ukraine with hundreds of drones and missiles. I urge all partners to respond strongly. Putin did this on 10 October — the anniversary of the first large-scale attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in 2022.”
2025: “Russia is worse than HAMAS. Even HAMAS has agreed to a ceasefire and peace efforts. To the contrary, Moscow continues the senseless war it began — the war it cannot and will not win. As a result of this massive strike, a 7-year-old boy was killed in Zaporizhzhia, and dozens more civilians have been injured across the country.”
2025: “Pressure on Moscow is the only recipe that can work, but it needs to be strong and consolidated. Economic pressure of biting sanctions, military pressure of stronger support for Ukraine, and political pressure of full isolation. Putin must feel that the cost of continuing the war exceeds the cost of stopping it.”
2025: “We need global rules — now — for how AI can be used in weapons. This is just as urgent as preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.”
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