Trump conditions the signing of the security agreement with Ukraine on Zelensky handing over the Donbas to Putin

Donald Trump’s pressure to end the war in Ukraine once again puts Volodymyr Zelensky between a rock and a hard place. One of the conditions that the Trump Administration has set for signing the security guarantee agreement is that kyiv commit to ratifying a peace that requires it to cede Donbas to Russia, the eastern region of the country of which it still controls approximately 20%.

This is how it was collected this Tuesday by Financial Times citing eight sources familiar with the negotiations. Washington conditions support to strengthen Ukraine’s security to prevent new Russian aggression and the sending of more weapons and anti-aircraft defenses to kyiv withdrawing its troops from the part of Donbas still under its power.

Last Sunday, Zelensky assured that the document on security guarantees was “100% ready” and that he was waiting for Trump to indicate a date and place to ratify it. However, the Ukrainian president has reiterated on numerous occasions that any peace agreement must respect the territorial integrity of his country, although in recent weeks he has opened up to the possibility of creating a “free economic zone” in Donbas.

According to the account of a senior Ukrainian official collected by the FTuncertainty prevails in kyiv these days about the attitude of the United States, which “stops every time security guarantees can be signed.” kyiv wants to ratify this agreement before giving up any territory. But the US Administration sees it the other way around: Donbas must pass into the hands of Vladimir Putin as an essential condition for the war to end.

The trilateral talks last weekend in Abu Dhabi confirmed that the territorial issue continues to be the great point of friction in achieving the cessation of hostilities. The wish of the Russian autocrat implies that Ukrainian forces abandon their positions in the Donetsk region, while the Ukrainian leader will not withdraw his troops unless he receives solid security guarantees.

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