President Donald Trump said progress had been made in Friday’s Alaska summit with the Russian leader, but no deal on peace in Ukraine has been reached.
It would be «totally unacceptable» for Kyiv to give up its eastern regions for a peace deal, a senior Ukrainian politician has said, as Ukrainian officials prepare to meet President Donald Trump and European leaders in Washington on Monday.
Reuters reported on Sunday that Russia had said it would offer slivers of land it currently controls in Ukraine in exchange for Kyiv ceding chunks of land in the east that Russia does not currently control, citing sources briefed on the Kremlin’s thinking.
Under the proposal, Ukraine would fully withdraw from Donetsk and Luhansk, with the current front lines in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions to the south frozen in place, according to the report.
For Ukraine, it is politically and militarily off the table to consent to losing the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Oleksandr Merezhko, the chair of Ukraine’s parliamentary foreign affairs committee and a member of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s party, previously told Newsweek.
The Kremlin declared in fall 2022 that Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions were now part of Russia after referendums widely condemned as a sham.
