Ukrainian president says plan would not be fair without guarantees that Russia would not simply take over zone

The US wants Ukraine to withdraw its troops from the Donbas region, and Washington would then create a “free economic zone” in the parts Kyiv currently controls, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.

Previously, the US had suggested Kyiv should hand over the parts of Donbas it still controlled to Russia, but the Ukrainian president said on Thursday that Washington had now suggested a compromise version in which Ukrainian troops would withdraw, but Russian troops would not advance into the territory.

“Who will govern this territory, which they are calling a ‘free economic zone’ or a ‘demilitarised zone’ – they don’t know,” said the Ukrainian president, speaking with journalists in Kyiv on Thursday.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    9 hours ago

    The more stupid Russia makes Trump look, the better it is for them. The entire objective is to fully destroy America’s reputation in the world. They’ve already done that with spectacular success, now they’re just piling on.

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      4 hours ago

      It’ll just raise the US’s reputation even more when it finally stirs from its lethargy and cleans house.

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          42 minutes ago

          Unfortunately you’ll most likely be right, dems won’t do shit, because they don’t want to cause a ruckus and their backers probably have their own skeletons in a closet that might fall out. All the shit under Trump will just fade away.