{"id":412079,"date":"2025-09-10T03:08:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T03:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412079\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T03:08:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T03:08:20","slug":"putin-told-trump-that-donbas-would-fall-in-3-to-4-months-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412079\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin told Trump that Donbas would fall in \u20183 to 4 months\u2019 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the most fortified part with the most capable forces,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mVbLjKNkGBk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zelenskyy said<\/a>, explaining why conceding the region is a non-negotiable for Ukraine. \u201cIt\u2019s like a fortress \u2026 and if we withdraw our troops and he will have all the Donbas, who can guarantee that he won\u2019t move 90 kilometers further on Kharkiv, he always wanted Kharkiv,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, those concerns were underscored by a Russian strike on civilians in the Donetsk region. A glide bomb hit the village of Yarova, less than 10 kilometers from the front line, killing at least 21 people and wounding nearly two dozen others as they waited to collect their pensions, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/1965346017894858856\" target=\"_blank\">Zelenskyy<\/a> and local officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Calling the attack \u201cfrankly brutal,\u201d Zelenskyy urged the international community to increase pressure on Russia. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world must not remain inactive. A response from the United States is needed. A response from Europe is needed. A response from the G20 is needed. Strong action is needed so that Russia stops bringing death,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy\u2019s remarks on Donbas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/16\/world\/europe\/trump-putin-ukraine-land-swap.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">follow reports<\/a> that Putin had presented to Trump a peace plan during the U.S.-Russia bilateral meeting in Alaska on Aug. 15, under which Ukraine would cede unoccupied territory in exchange for Moscow\u2019s written pledge not to invade again.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the presidential summit, Zelenskyy said \u201cit was a pity\u201d Ukraine had not been invited and that \u201cTrump gave Putin what he wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s the most fortified part with the most capable forces,\u201d Zelenskyy said, explaining why conceding the region is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[32,2000,299,660,2598,2822,332,7070,657,49,333,2601,771,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-412079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-kremlin","12":"tag-missiles","13":"tag-regions-cohesion","14":"tag-russia","15":"tag-steve-witkoff","16":"tag-ukraine","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-vladimir-putin","19":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","20":"tag-war","21":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115177803185856125","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}