KYIV: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the United States proposed that Ukraine cede land to Russia in exchange for joining Nato, and that his government was in talks on “specific” security guarantees from the West.
“The Americans raised a question: ‘What if Ukraine joins Nato? Would Ukraine withdraw from Donbas?’ This was the first time this had been raised,” Zelenskyy told reporters on Friday in comments embargoed until Saturday.
He said Ukraine was discussing “specific security guarantees from Nato and the EU” and that if Western countries confirmed them, “then I will ask our Ukrainian society what it thinks: do we accept it or not? I have no right to make that decision on my own.”