which he unveiled days before Putin\u2019s decree.<\/a><\/p>\nTrump offered to recognise Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk as de facto Russian, while freezing the frontlines in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia \u2013 meaning de facto recognition along the line of contact, rather than giving Putin the entirety of those latter two oblasts.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s 28-point plan demands Russia subsequently relinquishes other territories it controls outside of those regions, which Putin evidently is not ready to do.<\/p>\n
Putin\u2019s new document also disregards his own pledge to the people of Luhansk and Donetsk, made in February 2022.<\/p>\n
He declared the two separatist regions independent \u201cPeople\u2019s Republics\u201d \u2013 and then invaded the rest of Ukraine three days later.<\/p>\n
The MoD explained the decision to fully claim these Ukrainian oblasts is part of the wider Russification policy.<\/p>\n
The intelligence officials said:\u00a0\u201cThe Russian authorities have been directed to build Russian identity and increase the use of the Russian language in the territory it illegally occupies in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n
This \u201ccontinued Russification policy\u201d involves forcing Russian language, identity and culture on to the residents of sovereign Ukrainian territory.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe policy forms part of Russia\u2019s longstanding efforts to extirpate Ukrainian culture and identity, and de-legitimise Ukrainian statehood,\u201d the MoD said.<\/p>\n
Putin said on Thursday that Washington\u2019s legal recognition of these regions as Russian land would be a key part of peace negotiations.<\/p>\n
Russia said it received a revised strategy for ending the war on Friday, after Ukraine\u2019s allies in Europe worked to persuade the US to accept some of their counter proposals on Trump\u2019s initial plan intended to be more favourable towards Ukraine.<\/p>\n
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