US floats Donbas for NATO deal

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"The Americans raised a question: 'What if Ukraine joins NATO? Would Ukraine withdraw from Donbas?' This was the first time this had been raised," he told reporters.

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Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed that the United States recently raised the possibility of Ukraine withdrawing from its eastern Donbas region in exchange for NATO membership during peace talks in Abu Dhabi. He also said that the government was in talks about "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," he told reporters.

Zelensky said his government is in talks with NATO and EU and only after the Western countries have confirmed them will he ask the Ukrainian community about the proposal.

"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," he said.

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