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.
A referendum conducted by Russia isn’t trustworthy.
Nobody at any point claimed it was trustworthy, only that it was held.
Kinperor is asking if you or anyone else has any better data on how the people living in the former Ukraine territories feel.
This shouldn’t be too much of an ask given how low the confidence is the Russian-held referendum and how certain yall seem to be that predominantly ethnically Russian people in those areas are yearning for Ukrainian freedom.
Personally, I would be quite surprised if the people who have been oppressed and bombed both sides have anything but disdain for either.
So Russia is untrustworthy, ergo we should not engage with them or take their words?
Then why is the west engaging with a country too corrupt to join NATO (Ukraine)? Where are our standards for this specific country?