#Russia or Russian-backed separatists have claimed parts of the region since 2014, but they have never been able to conquer the entirety of the region by force.
#Trump has not publicly commented on #Putin’s demand for all of #Donetsk, which has not previously been reported. Trump did not […]
#Putin has tried & failed to conquer the territory for 11 years, repeatedly repulsed by #Ukraine forces who are deeply entrenched in an area they believe is a major bulwark against a speedy Russian advance westward toward their capital.
Putin’s focus on #Donetsk suggests he is not backing away […]
#Putin demanded #Ukraine surrender key #territory in call with #Trump
The demand from Putin would significantly disadvantage Ukraine & could be an obstacle to peace, officials said.
Putin in a phone call this week with #TACO demanded that Kyiv surrender full control of #Donetsk, a […]
Nope. Not unless their demands have changed.
#Russia proposes to #Ukraine date & venue for *peace* talks, expects a reply
Vladimir Medinsky, the head of Russia's delegation at peace talks on Ukraine, said on Wednesday he had sent proposals to Ukraine with a date & venue to exchange memorandums […]
Not gonna happen.
#Russia demanded #Ukraine pull its troops out of all the Ukrainian regions *claimed* by Moscow before they would agree to a ceasefire, a senior Ukrainian official familiar with the talks told Reuters.
#geopolitics #StandWithUkraine #GiveNoGround #democracy […]
The #Ukraine / #Europe proposal requires #Russia to unconditionally return all deported & illegally displaced Ukrainian #children. Exchange of all prisoners of war (the principle of "all for all"). Russia must release all civilian prisoners.
The #Trump / #SteveWitkoff proposal makes ZERO […]
The #Ukraine / #Europe proposal specifies that Ukraine will be fully reconstructed & compensated financially, including through Russian sovereign assets that will remain frozen until #Russia compensates damage to Ukraine.
It adds, #US #sanctions imposed on Russia since 2014 may be subject to […]
The #Trump / #SteveWitkoff proposal gives no details on how or with what moneys #Ukraine will be compensated & reconstructed.
All it says is, “Ukraine to be fully reconstructed & compensated financially.”
The #US proposal completely & immediately lifts #sanctions imposed on #Russia since 2014 […]
#Territory
The #Trump / #SteveWitkoff proposal provides US de jure recognition of Russian control of Crimea, Luhansk as well as parts of Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, & Kherson.
The #Ukraine / #Europe proposal states, “Territorial issues will be discussed & resolved after a full and unconditional […]
The #Trump / #SteveWitkoff proposal requires that Ukraine not seek #NATO membership [a long demand of Putin’s]
The #Ukraine / #Europe proposal states, “Ukraine receives robust security guarantees including from the US (Article 5-like agreement), while there is no consensus among Allies on NATO […]
As you can see, the two proposals differ remarkably from each other. The #Trump / #SteveWitkoff proposal offers no explicit
guarantee of #security from the #US, only
European states & “willing non-European states”
The #Ukraine / #Europe proposal states, “Ceasefire monitoring, led by the US & […]
The primary areas of difference in the two texts are over the sequencing for resolving questions over #territory, the lifting of #sanctions on #Russia, #security guarantees & the size of #Ukraine's military.
While some of the divergences have been highlighted by sources close to the talks, the […]
Good human! A Ukrainian soldier carries a dog out of a house damaged by the strike in Kyiv on Thursday. (Evgeniy Maloletka/AP)
The Russian attack killed at least 12 people & wounded ~90 others, emergency authorities said, in one of the deadliest attacks on the capital in nearly a year.
The strike is the latest in a devastating series of #Russia attacks on #civilians in #Ukraine & comes as […]
[Original post on masto.ai]
#Russia launched a massive missile & drone attack on Ukrainian cities early Thursday, prompting a rare rebuke from #Trump, who called the deadly attack “not necessary, & very bad timing.”
“Vladimir, STOP!” he wrote on social media, referring to #Putin. Trump has generally refrained from […]
Lower-level diplomats from #Britain, #France, #Germany, #Ukraine, & the #UnitedStates still gathered for technical talks. But the absence of #MarcoRubio or #SteveWitkoff, #Trump’s chief negotiator w/ #Russia, renewed fears that Ukraine & #Europe were being marginalized abandoned] as the [#Trump […]
“The current lines, or somewhere close to them, is where you’re ultimately, I think, going to draw the new lines in the conflict,” Vance added. “Now, of course, that means the Ukrainians & the Russians are both going to have to give up some of the territory they currently own.” [um, seems like […]
The #threat by #JDVance to walk away from peace talks were similar to comments last wk from Secy of #State #MarcoRubio & from #Trump, who said…if the 2 sides don’t agree quickly to a deal, “we’re just going to say, ‘You’re foolish, you’re fools, you’re horrible people, & we’re going to just take […]
#JDVance, speaking during a trip to India, said the #US would “walk away” from the *peace* process if both Ukraine & #Russia refused to accept the American [Russian] terms. But President Zelensky was clearly the target.
#Trump #authoritarianism #appeasement #NewWorldOrder #geopolitics […]
Fuck that
#JDVance on Wednesday called on #Ukraine to accept an American *peace* proposal that closely aligns w/longstanding #Russia goals, including a “freeze” of territorial lines in the 3+yr war, acceptance of the #annexation of #Crimea by Russia & a prohibition on Ukraine becoming part of […]
As #Trump gives his State of the Reich address, The choice before us living in the #usa right now is whether we’re going to stand up to the truly lost on the #American Right before they start digging the mass graves or after they’ve begun filling them.
#news #world #politics #givenoground
Voting against both the #Ukraine resolution & the amendments to the US version would put the #UnitedStates on the side of a small minority, including #Russia, in the 193-member General Assembly.
A #State Dept official…said the #US would also introduce its resolution at a meeting of the […]
#PissOffDictatorTrump
🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
#StrongAsFuck
#GiveNoGround
suddenly so very glad i decided against becoming a civil servant after i got out of the navy
and also, so very mad i didn't.
the best place to fight is from within and i'm not there to do it
#GiveNoGround
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recognize these for what they are - testing sorties
they're looking for weaknesses
we have to challenge them at every turn, hard and fast
#GiveNoGround
There’s no middle ground here; either we are for constitutional democracy or we’re against it. For or against the rule of law. This is not complicated. #GiveNoGround
