Any offer from Russia to cede the Donbas area in return for a ceasefire will be rejected by Ukraine, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky, who also warned that the territory might be exploited as a launchpad for more operations.
Zelensky’s remarks came ahead of Friday’s Alaska summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump. Any peace agreement, according to Trump, would entail some swapping of territories,” and it is thought that one of Putin’s demands is that Kyiv give up the areas of the Donbas that it still holds.
In the meantime, Russian forces have persisted in their summer onslaught, launching an unexpected advance close to the eastern town of Dobropillia and quickly expanding 10 kilometers (six miles). While admitting that the advance had occurred in “several spots,” Zelensky declared that Kyiv would soon annihilate the attacking battalions.
While downplaying Russia’s gains, he said it was “clear to us” that Moscow wanted to establish a “certain information space” that “Russia is moving forward, advancing, while Ukraine is losing” before to Putin seeing Trump.
When Vladimir Putin meets with Donald Trump in Anchorage on Friday, no formal information has surfaced on the requests he may make. The eastern areas of Luhansk and Donetsk comprise the Donbas, which Russia has partially controlled since 2014.
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