Kremlin says Zelensky should immediately order Ukrainian forces to withdraw from Donbas
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said at a briefing that Zelensky should have decided “yesterday” to withdraw Ukrainian forces from Donbas.
“As for the two months, the issue is not about two months. Zelensky should today make the decision for Ukrainian forces to leave the territory of the Donbas. And leave, withdraw beyond the administrative borders of the Donetsk People’s Republic,” Peskov said.
He said a decision to pull Ukrainian forces out of Donetsk region could “stop the hot phase of this war.”
The day before, Zelensky said Russia was telling the American side that Ukraine had two months to withdraw its forces from the Donetsk region, after which Russia would seize the east of the country and Donbas. If Ukraine did not pull out, Zelensky said, Russia would take Donbas and then the conditions would be different.
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