Witkoff reportedly pressed Zelensky to accept reality: Donetsk is Russia
17:47 19.10.2025 (Updated: 18:04 19.10.2025)
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Witkoff reportedly pressed Zelensky to accept reality: Donetsk is Russia
During Friday’s Trump-Zelensky meeting, the US special envoy “pressed” the Ukrainian delegation to relinquish claims on the Donetsk region, given its mostly Russian-speaking status, sources told WaPo.
During Friday’s meeting with Zelensky, Trump ducked a question about Ukraine’s return to its 1991 borders, saying “you never know, do you. You just never know with war – war and peace, you never know.”
In June, President Putin demanded that Ukrainian forces completely withdraw from whatever areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, Kherson and Zaporozhye are still under their control among Russia’s conditions for a peace deal.
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