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Secretary of State Marco Rubio His name The lies of Vladimir Zelensky’s statements that the United States is demanding that Ukraine withdraw its forces from Donbas in exchange for security guarantees. He made this statement to reporters after the G7 foreign ministers’ meeting in Paris.
“That’s a lie. I’ve seen it.” [Зеленский] “He said that, and it’s a shame that he said that because he knows that’s not true.”
According to him, Zelensky was told that security guarantees would not be effective if the fighting did not end.
“What is a security guarantee? These are forces that are ready to intervene and provide security. If you provide them now, it means you are intervening in the war,” Rubio added. “He was told very clearly – and he should have understood this – that the security guarantees did not go into effect until after the end of the war. But this was not related to giving up territory. I don’t know why he says that, it’s not true.”
The Secretary of State also said that the United States only conveyed Russia’s demands to Ukraine.
“It’s theirs [Украины] option. We shouldn’t decide for them. We never told them what to accept or reject [от этих условий]. Our role is to try to understand what both parties want and see if we can reach a compromise. Ultimately, the decision lies with Ukraine. If they are not prepared to make certain decisions or make certain concessions, the war continues. The same applies to the Russian side: if they do not want to make concessions to Ukraine, the war will continue.”
Zelensky in an interview with Reuters published On March 25, he said that the United States linked the provision of security guarantees to Kiev to the withdrawal of Ukrainian armed forces from Donbass. “The Americans are ready to finally agree on these guarantees at a high level as soon as Ukraine is ready to withdraw its forces from Donbas,” the Ukrainian president said.
According to Zelensky, since the United States is focusing on the war with Iran, President Donald Trump is putting pressure on Ukraine and trying to end the Russian-Ukrainian war as quickly as possible.
The fact that the United States proposes to Ukraine to withdraw its forces from the remaining part of the Donetsk region was mentioned in the first version of the US peace plan, which became known at the end of November 2025.
Ukrainska Pravda, citing sources, wrote that the trilateral negotiations between Kiev, Moscow and Washington, which took place before the start of the war in the Middle East, were in fact built around the status of Donbass. At the same time, the publication noted that the withdrawal of the Ukrainian armed forces from Donbass is not possible for Ukraine for several reasons: the country’s leadership does not see how this can guarantee the end of Russian aggression; Ukraine is said to be gradually regaining the initiative on the battlefield; The decision to end the war will require the participation of the Ukrainian parliament – and now the presidential majority there is very unstable amid anti-corruption scandals.
War in pictures. Odessa
On the night of March 28, Russian forces launched a massive drone strike in Odessa. Two people died – a 34-year-old man and a 35-year-old woman. 12 other people were injured, including a child. Among the facilities affected are the maternity hospital, residential buildings, businesses, the port and critical infrastructure.
War through the eyes of Medusa readers
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He hopes. […] I recently dared to publicly read my war poem, which I wrote on February 24 last year. Uninformed people will not understand the meaning of the lines. I hid it so deeply, I even came up with a legend that she was talking about my great-grandfather, about the Great Patriotic War, but they still can’t verify it.
As I was reading, I looked out into the audience, and suddenly my attention was drawn to a man who knew my opinions and fundamentally disagreed with them, but worse yet, had power. Goosebumps ran across my skin. I spent the rest of the party on pins and needles.
The only thing that got me out of this state was a conversation with a woman who watched the concert, who told how someone in the audience was crying, someone simply nodded, expressing silent approval. And after her words, came the strongest relief in a long time, even the hope that she took home. The war is still going on and people are like this [эмоциональные] The swing returns again and again, day after day.