“US President Donald Trump said that the negotiations on Donbas are “moving in the right direction”. “We have not yet fully resolved this issue, but we are very close. This is a difficult topic, one of the most difficult… They (the Russians – ed.) asked for this (for Ukraine to give Donbas to Russia – ed.). There was a dispute about this. We need to agree on positions, but it seems to me that everything is moving in the right direction,” he said. According to him, the issue of the demilitarized “free economic zone” in Donbas has come close to a solution – “we are very, very close.” The meeting of the Ukrainian and American delegations ended in the USA. The meeting lasted more than two hours. After that, negotiations between Zelenskyi and Trump with European leaders took place. Read also: Trump announced the “final stage” of negotiations, but there are no deadlines Axios wrote that this meeting is a sign of significant progress in the negotiations. Earlier, Trump stated that he would meet with Zelenskyi only if he believed that the agreement was close to completion. Zelenskyi said that Trump’s plan is “90% agreed” and “a lot can be resolved before the New Year.” The main obstacle is Russia’s demand for control over the entire territory of Donbass, notes Axios. The US has proposed turning the areas from which Kyiv will be asked to withdraw its troops into a demilitarized “free economic zone.” Zelensky insists on a mirror-image withdrawal of Russian troops from the current conflict line and emphasizes that territorial concessions must be approved in a referendum. Politico writes that Russia has not yet shown readiness to agree to any proposals from the peace plan that Zelensky spoke about. But Trump noted that Moscow will have to agree to certain concessions, since the Russian economy is in a difficult situation. On December 27, the leader of the Russian Federation dressed in a military uniform to hold a meeting at the command post of the Joint Group of Forces. There he listened to the report of the Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov. Putin was informed that Russian troops had taken control of the cities of Gulyaipole in the Zaporizhzhia region and Myrnograd in the Pokrovsky district of the Donetsk region. The Ukrainian General Staff, commenting on the statements regarding Gulyaipol, noted that “the haste of such “blitzkriegs” is due to the meeting of the presidents of Ukraine and the United States, which should take place in the near future.””, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
US President Donald Trump said that the negotiations on Donbas are “moving in the right direction”. “We have not yet fully resolved this issue, but we are very close. This is a difficult topic, one of the most difficult… They (the Russians – ed.) asked for this (for Ukraine to give Donbas to Russia – ed.). There was a dispute about this. We need to agree on positions, but it seems to me that everything is moving in the right direction,” he said. According to him, the issue of the demilitarized “free economic zone” in Donbas has come close to a solution – “we are very, very close.” The meeting of the Ukrainian and American delegations ended in the USA. The meeting lasted more than two hours. After that, negotiations between Zelenskyi and Trump with European leaders took place. Read also: Trump announced the “final stage” of negotiations, but there are no deadlines Axios wrote that this meeting is a sign of significant progress in the negotiations. Earlier, Trump stated that he would meet with Zelenskyi only if he believed that the agreement was close to completion. Zelenskyi said that Trump’s plan is “90% agreed” and “a lot can be resolved before the New Year.” The main obstacle is Russia’s demand for control over the entire territory of Donbass, notes Axios. The US has proposed turning the areas from which Kyiv will be asked to withdraw its troops into a demilitarized “free economic zone.” Zelensky insists on a mirror-image withdrawal of Russian troops from the current conflict line and emphasizes that territorial concessions must be approved in a referendum. Politico writes that Russia has not yet shown readiness to agree to any proposals from the peace plan that Zelensky spoke about. But Trump noted that Moscow will have to agree to certain concessions, since the Russian economy is in a difficult situation. On December 27, the leader of the Russian Federation dressed in a military uniform to hold a meeting at the command post of the Joint Group of Forces. There he listened to the report of the Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov. Putin was informed that Russian troops had taken control of the cities of Gulyaipole in the Zaporizhzhia region and Myrnograd in the Pokrovsky district of the Donetsk region. The Ukrainian General Staff, commenting on the statements regarding Gulyaipol, noted that “the haste of such “blitzkriegs” is due to the meeting of the presidents of Ukraine and the United States, which should take place in the near future.”