Ukrainian president says plan would not be fair without guarantees that Russia would not simply take over zone

The US wants Ukraine to withdraw its troops from the Donbas region, and Washington would then create a “free economic zone” in the parts Kyiv currently controls, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.

Previously, the US had suggested Kyiv should hand over the parts of Donbas it still controlled to Russia, but the Ukrainian president said on Thursday that Washington had now suggested a compromise version in which Ukrainian troops would withdraw, but Russian troops would not advance into the territory.

“Who will govern this territory, which they are calling a ‘free economic zone’ or a ‘demilitarised zone’ – they don’t know,” said the Ukrainian president, speaking with journalists in Kyiv on Thursday.

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      18 hours ago

      Unfortunately you’ll most likely be right, dems won’t do shit, because they don’t want to cause a ruckus and their backers probably have their own skeletons in a closet that might fall out. All the shit under Trump will just fade away.

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        It’s not just modern Dems. The simple fact is, Dems have been extremely weak for decades, and have basically become presidential placeholders, in office just long enough for people to forget the last bad Conservative president, and elect another one to continue their destruction of America.

        The last strong Democratic president was LBJ. We need another warrior like him.