BREAKING: UKRAINE SAYS NO! Zelensky REJECTS Trump’s plan to redraw the map so Putin can claim a victory his army couldn’t win!
Donald Trump’s so-called peace negotiators have come up with a peculiar solution to Vladimir Putin’s failure to conquer eastern Ukraine: Change the map so he can pretend he did!
According to the Telegraph, Trump’s real estate envoys proposed redrawing the administrative boundaries of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions to let Russia claim control of the entire Donbas – even though Ukrainian troops would retain cities that Putin’s forces have been unable to captur.
The proposal would have effectively removed those Ukrainian-held areas from the regions Putin has demanded as his prize. But Ukraine rejected the idea outright.
“Ukraine will never recognise it, neither de facto nor de jure [in practice or by law],” a Ukrainian source close to the negotiations told the Telegraph. “This has always been our position at the table.”
Russia is demanding roughly 2,000 square miles of Ukrainian territory that its military has failed to conquer, and President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly refused to surrender it.
Meanwhile, Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, who is negotiating alongside special envoy Steve Witkoff, offered a rosy assessment of Putin’s intentions.
“We can say very strongly we believe so under the right conditions,” Kushner declared when asked whether Putin was genuinely ready for peace.
Those conditions remain a major obstacle. Putin continues to demand territory his army doesn’t control, while Ukraine refuses to recognize Russia’s occupation.
Zelensky also accused Russian negotiators of misleading Washington about how much Ukrainian territory their forces actually hold, saying Kyiv challenged their claims with photographic and video evidence.
The negotiations in Abu Dhabi have also addressed prisoner exchanges and security guarantees intended to prevent another Russian invasion.
But on the central territorial question, Ukraine’s position remains unchanged: Putin cannot just get on paper what his military has failed to seize in reality.