🔶 Zelensky: America's offer to hand over Ukrainian territory in exchange for NATO membership.
Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, announced that America offered Ukraine to withdraw from the Donbas region in favor of Russia in exchange for membership in the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO).
According to the AFP news agency, Zelensky said on Friday, November 13: "The Americans raised the question that if Ukraine joins NATO, will it withdraw from the Donbass? "This was the first time such an issue was brought up."
The president of Ukraine also said that his country is negotiating "certain security guarantees" from NATO and the European Union. He emphasized that if the Western countries approve these guarantees, he will ask the opinion of the Ukrainian people regarding the acceptance or rejection of such an agreement.
Since the beginning of the military attack on Ukraine, Russia has sought to conquer the eastern regions of this country, but so far has not been able to take control of these regions. On Saturday, November 14, the "Interfax" news agency reported, citing the Ministry of Defense of Russia, that state forces captured the village of "Tersyanka" in the Zaporizhia region in eastern Ukraine.
Russia's Ministry of Defense also announced that state forces attacked Ukraine's energy and transportation infrastructure, ammunition depots and drone production centers in a ground attack. The claims of the Russian Ministry of Defense have not been independently verified and cannot be verified.