Today, no clear-thinking individual in Europe believes that peace can be achieved without Ukraine losing parts of its territory, said Pellegrini in an interview with the Slovak public service channel STVR over the weekend, according to the Ukrainian The Kyiv Independent.
Pellegrini, who was elected president in the spring, has previously made it clear that he opposes issuing an invitation to join NATO to Ukraine.
The president has been described by, among others, BBC as a Russia-friendly populist, on the same line as Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico.
Fico criticizes military support to Ukraine and sanctions against Russian interests and forms a pair in the EU on this issue with Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
