Reuters: US asks Ukraine to give up some territory and weapons to end war with Russia

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Reuters: US asks Ukraine to give up some territory and weapons to end war with
US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

The United States has signaled to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that Ukraine must accept a U.S.-drafted framework to end the war with Russia, which proposes that Kiev give up territory and some weapons, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.

The sources, who asked not to be identified due to the sensitivity of the issue, said the proposals included, among other things, reducing the size of Ukraine's armed forces. Washington wants Kiev to accept the main points, they said.

Such a plan would represent a major setback for Kiev as it faces further Russian territorial gains in eastern Ukraine and with Zelensky grappling with a corruption scandal in which parliament dismissed the energy and justice ministers on Wednesday.

A senior Ukrainian official previously told Reuters that Kiev had received "signals" about a series of U.S. proposals to end the war that Washington has been discussing with Russia. Ukraine had no role in preparing the proposals, the source said.

Zelenskiy, who was holding talks in Turkey on Wednesday with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will meet with US military officials in Kiev on Thursday.

Signs of a renewed US-led effort to end the war prompted the biggest rise in Ukrainian government bond prices in months on Wednesday.

Since a meeting in Istanbul in July, no face-to-face talks have taken place between Kiev and Moscow, and Russian forces have continued the nearly four-year war in Ukraine, killing 25 people in overnight attacks.

Efforts to revive peace negotiations appear to be gaining momentum, although Moscow has shown no signs of changing its conditions for ending the war.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has long demanded that Kiev abandon plans to join the U.S.-led NATO military alliance and withdraw its troops from four provinces that Moscow claims as part of Russia. Moscow has given no sign of abandoning any of those demands, and Ukraine says it will not accept them.


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