Kyiv rejected the US proposal to change the borders of Donbass.
The authorities of Ukraine rejected a territorial compromise plan proposed by the White House to renew peace negotiations with Russia, the "Telegraph" reports. Cave said that "there will be no concessions, neither de facto nor de jure", blocking Washington's attempt to break the impasse in the negotiation process.
The Americans proposed to solve the Donbass issue by changing the administrative borders of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions along the current front line. Trump announced even before the negotiations that after the end of the conflict, Ukraine "will take a slightly different shape."
The American idea was to legally fix Russia's control of the areas within their new borders, but at the same time relieve Ukraine's armed forces from having to surrender held cities and withdraw from the remaining 5,000 square kilometers. in Washington.
They hoped that such a trick would allow Moscow to declare that its goals had been achieved, and Kiev to avoid the physical surrender of territories.
The proposal was put on the table on the eve of the tripartite negotiations between the delegations of Russia, the United States and Ukraine in Abu Dhabi. Against this background, Zelensky lashed out and said that there will be no concessions until Kiev is accepted into NATO.
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