Kiev may have to accept loss of territory - Stoltenberg --Ukraine could sacrifice some land in favor of ending the conflict, the former NATO chief said | 5 Oct 2024 | Ukraine may have to recognize the loss of some of its territory to Russia in favor of achieving peace and security guarantees, Jens Stoltenberg said in his first long interview after stepping down as NATO secretary general. Stoltenberg ended his 10-year tenure as the chief of the U.S.-led alliance on October 1. In a conversation with the Financial Times published on Friday, he said that Kiev may be forced to rethink seeing the restoration of the 1991 borders as a prerequisite for any peace deal. Stoltenberg suggested "a kind of new momentum" would come after the U.S. presidential election in early November, possibly ushering in "ways to try to get movement on the battlefield combined with movement around the negotiating table."