Putin, Ukraine and Donbas
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Rubio shoots down report that Trump backs Putin’s plan for Russia to control Ukraine’s Donbas region
Marco Rubio clarifies that Ukrainian President Zelenskyy will decide on territorial issues in peace talks, not Trump, following reports concerning Donbas control.
Why is Russia so desperate to capture Ukraine’s Donbas region? - Giving up the region will have ‘catastrophic consequences’, say experts
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Witkoff: Russia-Ukraine land swaps a ‘fundamental issue’ to be discussed at Zelensky meeting
U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff said on Sunday that Russia-Ukraine land swaps are the “fundamental issue” that will be discussed at the White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr
During his meeting with Trump, Putin reportedly demanded full control over the Donbas region, which comprises the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces. Ukraine still has control over merely 30% of the former,
In a move that could reshape the course of the war in Ukraine, US President Donald Trump has backed a proposal for Kyiv to give up the Donbas region t.
Steve Witfkoff said Russia agreed in Alaska that the US and Europe could provide Ukraine with a Nato-style guarantee.
Evacuees at a shelter in eastern Ukraine reacted angrily to talk that land that has long been theirs could be given to Russia in exchange for peace.
At their Alaska summit, Trump and Putin discussed a peace framework in which Russia would return small occupied areas of Ukraine in exchange for Kyiv ceding larger eastern territories, halting Nato ambitions,