Zelenskyy considers holding a referendum on Donbas amid US pressure - Bloomberg
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is considering holding a referendum on transferring Donbas to Russia. This comes amid growing pressure from the United States to agree to the terms of a new peace plan that would involve a 20% reduction in Ukraine's territory.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is considering holding a referendum on the transfer of Donbas to Russia, while Kyiv is under increasing pressure from the United States to agree to the terms of a new peace plan. This was reported by Bloomberg, informs UNN.
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The publication indicates that Moscow insists that Ukraine withdraw its troops from the eastern territories, including areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions that the Russian military failed to capture during the almost four-year invasion.
The peace plan approved by Russia will reduce Ukraine's territory by 20%. Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk regions will be recognized as de facto Russian. The front lines will be frozen in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, and the rest of these two regions will still belong to the Russians
The authors note that the war in Ukraine "is increasingly straining the continent." Thus, NATO Secretary General Marco Rutte warned on Thursday that Russia "will come for the rest of Europe if its warmongering is not stopped now."
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