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Eugene

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Mon Aug 18, 2025, 07:20 AM Monday

Resignation and betrayal: What handing Donbas to Putin would mean for Ukraine [View all]

Source: BBC

Resignation and betrayal: What handing Donbas to Putin would mean for Ukraine

17 August 2025

Joel Gunter
Reporting from Kyiv

Days before meeting Vladimir Putin in Alaska, Donald Trump referred to what he called "land swaps" as a condition for peace.

For Ukrainians, it was a confusing turn of phrase. What land was to be swapped? Was Ukraine to be offered part of Russia, in exchange for the land Russia had taken by force?

As Volodymyr Zelensky prepares to travel to Washington on Monday to meet Trump, there is likely no "swap" element to the US president's thinking.

Instead, he is reportedly planning to press Zelensky to surrender the entirety of the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in return for Russia freezing the rest of the front line – a proposal put forward by Putin in Alaska.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgv1pdkll8o

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