Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the US wants Ukraine to withdraw its troops from the Donbas region, and Washington would then create a “free economic zone" in the parts Kyiv currently controls.

The US had earlier suggested Kyiv to hand over the parts of Donbas it still controlled, to Russia, but the Ukrainian president said on Thursday that Washington had now suggested a compromise version in which Ukrainian troops would withdraw, but Russian troops would not advance into the territory.

Speaking with journalists in Kyiv on Thursday, the Ukrainian president said, “Who will govern this territory, which they are calling a ‘free economic zone’ or a ‘demilitarised zone’ – they don’t know."

Zelenskyy said Ukraine viewed the plan as unfair without assurances that Russian forc

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