Posted on 08/16/2025 8:23:15 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
During a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy following the Alaska summit with Putin, U.S. President Donald Trump said that the Russian leader insists on gaining control over the entire Donbas region
Bloomberg reported the information.
According to sources, during the phone call, Trump noted that the final decision on the territories should be made by Kyiv, but Putin’s position remains unchanged. Russia wants full control over Donetsk and Luhansk regions, even though its forces have currently captured only part of these areas.
If Kyiv agrees, Moscow is ready to drop claims to the parts of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions still under Ukrainian control, effectively freezing the frontline there.
President Zelenskyy has repeatedly rejected any possibility of ceding territory.
Additionally, sources said that in talks with European leaders, Trump expressed willingness to support security guarantees for Ukraine, provided they do not involve NATO. The president suggested that Putin would agree to this.
Trump claims Putin open to new written agreement
Moreover, as Trump emphasized in talks with European leaders after the Alaska summit, the Russian leader is reportedly even willing to provide a written guarantee of no further armed aggression against Ukraine or any EU country, if he is given full control over the territories of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions, including areas currently under Ukrainian control.
This information was reported on the evening of August 16 by New York Times correspondent Steven Erlanger in Berlin.
“In return, Mr. Putin offered a cease-fire in the rest of Ukraine at current battle lines and a written promise not to attack Ukraine or any European country again, the senior officials said,” the NYT article states.
In response, European leaders reportedly reminded Trump that Putin “has broken similar promises before.”
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“NO! Land for peace is a reward for aggression. This goes back to Hitler 1939. It will only embolden Putin to go after mor land once he rebuilds his army. At the rate of losses, about 5 years.”
That’s funny right there, I don’t care who you are.
That Russia is outproducing the entire West 3-1 in missiles and ammo is huge problem is there every was a hot war between NATO and Russia. That fact alone is huge problem.
Ignoring our and NATO's glaring weaknesses against one of the elite militaries in the world would be fatal mistake if a hot war ever broke out.
We helped overthrow the democratically-elected president of Ukraine in 2014, and then sniveled like babies when Putin reacted with force.
The "greatest country in the world" allows itself total control over any foreign involvement in the Western Hemisphere, yet gets its panties in a knot pretty quick when Russia would dare to exert some control over which Western nations stick their beaks into their own neighborhood.
Giving Russia all of Donbas is effectively surrendering all of Ukraine - there are heavy fortifications that Russia has been trying to breach without success for 3.5 years stands in front of a vast undefendable plain.
Once breached or ceded, then there is little Ukraine can do to defend territory east of the Dnieper River.
There is no difference between 47’s ‘lasting peace” and a 1932 Brit’s “peace in our time”; one is willing to cede land to an invader and be hailed as a peacemaker with a Nobel Prize in hand, the other waved a treaty in the air and proclaimed the German leader sensible. One set the conditions for WWII in motion, the other ignores history and sets something rough sloughing toward Bethlehem, waiting to be born.
Interesting.....will wait and see.
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