Ukraine: «USA, ensures in trade for territories». But the White House denies it | EUROtoday

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While ready for the brand new negotiations for the tip of the conflict in Ukraine between the USA, Ukraine and Russia in Abu Dhabi, set for Sunday 1 February, particulars of the talks are rising even when their content material is controversial. According to the Financial Times, which publishes the information solely, the Trump administration has let Ukraine know that US safety ensures are conditional on Kiev first agreeing to a peace deal that will seemingly contain ceding the Donbass area to Russia. Washington has additionally hinted that it could promise Ukraine extra weapons to strengthen its peacetime military if, as the worth of peace with Russia, it agreed to withdraw its forces from components of the japanese area it controls.

Volodymyr Zelensky hopes to signal paperwork on safety ensures and a post-war “prosperity plan” with the United States as early as this month, giving Kiev leverage in future talks with Moscow. But Washington is now signaling that U.S. safety commitments depend upon reaching a take care of Russia.

Ukrainian and European officers have described the U.S. place as an try and stress Kiev into making the painful territorial concessions that Moscow has at all times demanded in any deal. The United States has not but given its ultimate approval to both settlement, though Zelensky stated the texts of the safety ensures, mentioned with President Donald Trump in Davos final week, have been “100 percent ready.”

The White House has denied the Financial Times’ report that Ukraine needed to abandon territorial claims in trade for US safety ensures, White House deputy spokeswoman Anna Kelly stated.

“It is unfortunate that the Financial Times is letting malicious actors lie anonymously to ruin the peace process, which is in a positive phase following this weekend’s historic trilateral meeting in Abu Dhabi,” Kelly informed the British enterprise newspaper.