US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Moscow’s concession in the US peace deal is simply that it does not keep invading Ukraine and take territories it does not even control.
On Wednesday, Vice President JD Vance said an “explicit proposal” was issued to Kyiv and Moscow without naming the terms, adding that Washington would withdraw from the deal if no progress were made.
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While Vance said both parties would have to “give up some of the territory they currently own,” Trump, when asked about the concessions proposed to Moscow on Thursday, answered “stopping the war” while suggesting that not “taking the whole country” is a “pretty big concession,” according to CNN.
While the exact terms of the US-proposed deal are not publicly known, media reports, citing unnamed US officials, said it included the US recognizing Crimea as Russian, reversing its longstanding policy after Russia’s 2014 annexation, in exchange for Moscow’s backing down on its maximalist demand to occupy five Ukrainian regions, most of which are not entirely under Russian control at present.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country would never recognize Crimea as Russian because it is enshrined in Ukraine’s constitution.
Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and laid claim to Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions via so-called referendums in late 2022 in occupied areas of Ukraine, most of which it does not control.
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At present, Russia controls almost the entirety of Ukraine’s Luhansk region and the majority of the Donetsk region. The majority of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions remain under Ukrainian control three years into Moscow’s full-scale invasion.
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