According to Witkoff, the Russian proposal provides for two stages, sources in European diplomacy said. Initially, Ukraine withdraws troops from Donbass, it is also provided for freezing the war on the front line.
The second stage provides for the coordination of the final peaceful plan, which will subsequently discuss with the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky.
European officials are concerned about such a proposal, because Ukraine actually gives Russia Donbass without any serious obligations from Moscow, except for the stop of hostilities. The interlocutors suggested that in this way Putin can simply use this as a trick to avoid new sanctions and continue the war.
Earlier, Bloomberg wrote that the United States and the Russian Federation are preparing an agreement on Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia before the meeting of Trump and Putin. The head of the White House himself stated that in a peace agreement, “exchange of territories” should be expected.
Context
Russian invaders, starting in 2014, occupied Crimea, units of Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporizhzhya, Kherson and Kharkov regions, and battles continue in the territory of the Sumy region. Also, under the Russian occupation, the Kinburn braid of the Nikolaev region turned out to be.
Earlier, Zelensky has repeatedly stated that legally Ukraine does not recognize a single occupied territory of the Russian.
