Details of post-summit call were leaked in which US president supports plan for Kyiv to give up Donbas region

Donald Trump will back a plan to cede unoccupied Ukrainian territory to Russia to secure an end to the war between the two countries, it was reported on Saturday, after details of his post-summit call with European leaders leaked out.

Trump told European leaders that he believed a peace deal could be negotiated if the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, agreed to give up the Donbas region, which Russian invaders have not been able to seize in over three years of fighting, the New York Times reported, citing to two senior European officials.

Two sources with direct knowledge of the talks in Alaska told the Guardian that Putin demanded Ukraine withdraw from Donbas, which is made up of the Donestk and Luhansk regions, as a condition for ending the war, but offered Trump a freeze along the remaining frontline.

  • Kinperor@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    You’re being purposefully disingenuous at this point.

    You asked me “[…] to prove they want to be Russian not the other way round” and I gave you sources that showed that there is a culturally russian population in these regions. I’m done with this straw-manning.

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      4 days ago

      That election didn’t prove they wanted to be Russian. It proved there was no consensus even in what are now disputed territories and historically have been since like 1115ce.

      Remind me again, when was the last time Crimea was Russian? Never? Gotcha. Move on.