Washington and Moscow are both exerting pressure on Kyiv to give up the embattled Donbas region of Ukraine to the Kremlin in any deal to end the four-year war, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday in an exclusive interview with AFP.
“Both the Americans and the Russians say that if you want the war to end tomorrow, get out of Donbas,” Zelensky said about the eastern region that Russia has claimed as its own.
Ukraine still controls around one-fifth of the Donetsk region, while Russia has seized basically the entire Lugansk region — the two are together referred to as the Donbas.
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