- 🇺🇦/🇺🇸/🇷🇺 NEW: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says US negotiators have made a proposal that Ukraine would give up the remaining Donbas territory under its control in exchange for NATO membership.
Kyiv still controls about 20% of Donbass, including the fortified defense belt of Slovansk-Kramtorsk. Any withdrawal from these positions would constitute a major territorial and military concession, giving Russia control of long-prepared Ukrainian defenses and more advantageous terrain.
The proposal was not announced as an agreed framework, and Zelensky did not indicate that Kyiv had accepted it.