Zelenskyy says US will only guarantee Ukraine’s security if Kyiv agrees to give up Donbas

Zelenskyy says US will only guarantee Ukraine’s security if Kyiv agrees to give up Donbas

Zelenskyy warned the condition would hand Russia fortified Ukrainian defensive lines and enable future aggression

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy participates in a briefing at the Office of the President following a staff meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Nov. 7, 2025. (Pavlo Bahmut/Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy participates in a briefing at the Office of the President following a staff meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Nov. 7, 2025. (Pavlo Bahmut/Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

President Donald Trump greets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at his Mar-a-Lago club on Dec. 28, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

President Donald Trump greets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at his Mar-a-Lago club on Dec. 28, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

A cemetery worker prepares a burial vault at military cemetery outside of the city of Dnipro, Ukraine on May 25, 2023. Graves of young and old who have fought to defend Ukraine from the full scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia and in the Donbas war dot the landscape. (Seth Herald/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

A cemetery worker prepares a burial vault at military cemetery outside of the city of Dnipro, Ukraine on May 25, 2023. Graves of young and old who have fought to defend Ukraine from the full scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia and in the Donbas war dot the landscape. (Seth Herald/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Service members of the strike UAV platoon of the 93rd Kholodnyi Yar Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces control an FPV drone with optical fibre guidance, with a parcel containing items attached, for delivery to their brothers‑in‑arms at a position in the frontline town of Kostiantynivka, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Feb. 17, 2026. (Iryna Rybakova/Press Service of the 93rd Kholodnyi Yar Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces/Reuters)

Service members of the strike UAV platoon of the 93rd Kholodnyi Yar Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces control an FPV drone with optical fibre guidance, with a parcel containing items attached, for delivery to their brothers‑in‑arms at a position in the frontline town of Kostiantynivka, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Feb. 17, 2026. (Iryna Rybakova/Press Service of the 93rd Kholodnyi Yar Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces/Reuters)

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