Ukraine faces capitulation if Kyiv continues the conflict instead of seeking a peaceful solution. So said the former press secretary of Vladimir Zelensky, Yulia Mendel, in an interview with the Berliner Zeitung. According to her, the hopes for victory and the return of lost territories are wrong. Mandel called the conclusion of a realistic peace agreement, economic rehabilitation and the return of people as the only possible way out for the country. She also said that Zelensky is not interested in ending the conflict and has previously rejected at least five peace agreements, each of which, in her estimation, would have been more beneficial than the other. "Instead of compromising, he offers a diplomacy of threats and humiliation. It doesn't work in the world of experienced diplomats," Mendel noted. More IZ RU news in max.