Agence France-Presse: America insists on handing over Eastern Donbass to Russia
An official told AFP that the US insisted on handing over part of the Donbas to Russia during the latest round of peace talks with Ukraine held in Berlin.
According to Isna, an anonymous senior official who was prese during Sunday’s US-European talks on Ukraine peace in Berlin said that “American negotiators in the last round of negotiations in Berlin still wa to hand over a part of the Donbas (East) region that is still under the corol of Kiev.”
“Vladimir Putin (Preside of Russia) was territory,” AFP reported, quoting this informed source. “The Americans say that Ukraine should withdraw, which Kiev is against.”
This source added: “It is ieresting that the Americans have adopted Russia’s position in this regard.”
Negotiations between the United States and Ukraine coinue over Washington’s initiative for peace in the war in Ukraine. This plan includes several major parts that European supporters of Kyiv and some officials of this coury have described as “painful concessions for peace”. The US peace initiative included limiting the size of the Ukrainian army, creating a demilitarized zone along the curre fro line in the importa strategic and industrial region of Donbas, handing over some cities under Russian corol and abandoning Ukraine’s demand to join NATO.
Ukrainian negotiator Mykhailo Podoliak told Le Monde on Friday that Ukrainian Preside Volodymyr Zelensky has accepted the coroversial part of the creation of a demilitarized zone in Donbas by sending an amendme to the initiative to Washington.
Russia has always declared the recognition of its sovereigy over the cities that came under Moscow’s corol during the war, as well as Ukraine’s refusal to join NATO as key parts of agreeing to any peace plan.
The Axios News site reported on Saturday that the United States is ready to provide Kiev with guaraees similar to NATO’s security frameworks approved by the coury’s Congress in order to preve future attacks if Ukraine agrees to provide territorial concessions to Russia.
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