On the map deposited on a bridge, Ukraine is displayed with its 1,300 kilometers of front line and its 20 % of occupied territories. It was around this document that Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump began, on Monday, August 18, in the White House, their bilateral maintenance. Tuesday morning, nothing had yet filtered that the two men were able to say to each other.
On the other hand, the previous statements of the American president on the subject of any territorial concessions are known. According to several sources cited in the American media, the latter reportedly reported, after his meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska, Friday, August 15, that the chief of the Kremlin would accept an end of the war on the condition of obtaining the entire eastern region of Donbass, formed from the Oblasts of Louhansk and Donetsk, including the areas still controlled by kyiv.
Donald Trump did not hide that such a withdrawal represented, in his eyes, an inevitable concession to obtain an agreement of peace. “The Ukrainian President Zelensky can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wishes, or he can continue to fight”, He had written, Sunday evening, on his social social network.
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