Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, tells Le Monde that the zone would require Ukrainian and Russian forces to both pull back from the front line.

https://archive.is/rlYmX

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz admitted on Thursday, December 11, that Ukraine was now “ready” to accept territorial concessions.

  • Kornblumenratte@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    I’m shocked by Merz’s incompetence again and again.

    Ukraine has been ready to accept territorial concessions since years. They had proposed more than once to freeze the frontline and accept the occupied territories as de facto under Moscow’s territorial control - i.e. they are ready to give up the occupied territories for years. Compared to freeze of the frontline, a demilitarized zone controlled by the US & friends would take away the control of the occupied territories from Moscow. Ukraine is now offering not more, but less to Putin and is using the natural ressources of Donbas and the glory of ending the war to bribe Trump. He can do so safely - he could even offer to demilitarize and put under US colonialecontrol every single oblast bordering Russia - because Putin is never going to agree.