US links security guarantees to Ukraine giving up Donbas, Zelenskiy says

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-links-security-guarantees-ukraine-giving-up-donbas-zelenskiy-says-2026-03-25/

31 Comments

  1. Anyone surprised with this ‘capitulation’? Putin must give back Kherson and Zap then

  2. Useful-Scratch-72 on

    Even with Trump firmly on his side and the current benefit of increasing oil prices, Putin is losing this war. The human and economic costs cannot be sustained.

  3. I don’t think it’s a good deal for Ukraine. Ceding Donbas seems to be a huge concession to me.

  4. The thing is, the USA changes it’s mind after every Trump-Putin call. That’s no way to guarantee anything.

  5. Not the worst deal in the world if the guarantees were truly Article 5 equivalent AND Trump wasn’t a lying piece of shit you can’t trust as far as you can throw

  6. It’s a trap. The US didn’t honor its security guarantee obligations for the Budapest Memorandum. Does anyone expect Trump to honor this?

  7. BrokkelPiloot on

    Don’t make a deal with the US, they will stab you in the back.for sure. That has been proven many times. Especially with this administration.

  8. FlaviusStilicho on

    What guarantees does anyone have that those new guarantees are better than the useless ones given in exchange for the nukes.

  9. Tall_Pressure7042 on

    Trump is easily manipulated. He is willing to acknowledge his Russian lord. But Ukraine keeps hitting Russian infrastructures as war goes on.

  10. solvitur_gugulando on

    US security guarantees are useless because the US has shown that it is capable of electing and reelecting a president who simply does not consider himself bound by any agreement whatsoever, even those that he himself has signed.

  11. I think this shows weakness from Russia. They’ve gone from trying to take the whole of Ukraine to now saying «Please, just give us Donbas, and we’ll stop». Their demands are getting smaller and smaller, likely because they know this war is shifting in Ukraine’s favor. Russia is losing ground and hemorrhaging men. They need to stop the bleeding and they’re willing to pay an increasingly high price for that.

    Oh, and fuck Trump!

  12. Successful_Gas_5122 on

    Putin is desperate to force Ukraine into handing over the Donbas without a fight because he knows his army would break itself against the fortress belt.

  13. norwegiancatwhisker on

    Ukraine already has US security guarantees. What’s wrong with the old ones?

  14. Security guarantees. Just lol. If so keen to cede territory why not start with their own?…

  15. Panzerkampfpony on

    handing over Donbass willingly is insanity, the security guarantees are useless. The GOP is a servant of foreign powers and the enemy of democracy.

  16. Didn’t the US and Russia already give security guarantees and recognize the territorial integrity of Ukraine in 1994? Why would anyone believe them now?

  17. Never heard of a war where the agressor needs to be compensated with extra terrain after a ceasefire… normally its the other way around

  18. They already said the mineral deal was practically security guarantees, remember? No one even rememberes that deal anymore. That’s how reliable the word of USA currently is.

  19. Pretty-Jaguar5895 on

    Why doesn’t Trump tell Putin to get out of all of Ukraine including the temporarily occupied Crimea, give up its Nukes!

  20. I wouldn’t trust any security guarantees from trump, i’ll bet even Taiwan are highly doubtful of any American aide against China at his stage.