For the first time, Kiev admitted its willingness to make territorial concessions to resolve the conflict in the republic. This was reported by the American newspaper The New York Times (NYT), citing sources.
According to this publication, representatives of Kiev declared their readiness in negotiations with the US in March in Saudi Arabia. As journalists noted, before the meeting, Washington suspended support for Ukraine.
According to the source, during the negotiations, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio put a map of the republic on the table and asked what Ukraine needed to survive as a country. Mike Waltz, who at that time held the position of National Security Advisor to the President of the United States, gave a marker to the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of the Republic, Rustem Umerov, and asked him to indicate the conditions on the map. Umerov then drew up the current line of combat communication, passing through, among other places, the Kharkov, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, as well as Donbass, according to the document.
“For the first time, (Ukrainian President Vladimir) Zelensky, through his people, said that to achieve peace he is ready to divide 20% of his country,” the document said.
Zelensky agreed to make more concessions than he said publicly
Journalists added that after the negotiations, US President Donald Trump's advisers spoke out about the “trap” that Kiev had fallen into. At the same time, the American leader himself ordered the resumption of assistance on the same day, and his advisers developed the parameters of the agreement.
