During an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, U.S. Special Envoy for Peace Missions Steve Witkoff answered a question about ceding Ukrainian territories to Russia.
00:00So Trump told Fox that he and Putin, quote, largely have agreed on, unquote, land swaps.
00:05And sources tell CNN that Trump, President Trump, told European leaders that Putin will agree to end the war and not attack Ukraine or other European countries, as you mentioned earlier,
00:13in exchange for Ukraine ceding the entire Donbass region to Russia, including territory that isn't even currently occupied by Russian forces.
00:22Is that accurate? Is that what's on the table? But Ukraine has to agree to cede all of Donbass?
00:30I think I think, you know, look, I don't know that we have we have the time now to go through all the different issues on these five regions.
00:41There are five regions here. It's always in in our view, been the crux of the deal.
00:47Those five regions, the Russians have previously said that they wanted it at the administrative lines.
00:55The that's a the administrative lines and the actual legal boundary lines as compared to the contact lines we made.
01:03The Russians made some concessions at the table with regard to all five of those regions.
01:08There is an important discussion to be had with regard to Don ask and and what would happen there.
01:15And that discussion is going to specifically be detailed on Monday when President Zelensky arrives with his delegation and some of the other European leaders.
01:25And hopefully we can cut through and make some decisions right then and there on that.
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