{"id":20686,"date":"2025-12-08T23:28:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20686"},"modified":"2025-12-08T23:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:28:17","slug":"what-the-us-wants-from-ukraine-leave-donbas-one-way-or-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20686","title":{"rendered":"What the US wants from Ukraine: Leave Donbas, one way or another"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;\u201cOn the territory issue, Americans are simple: Russia demands Ukraine to give up territories, and Americans keep thinking how to make it happen,\u201d a senior European official familiar with the negotiation process told POLITICO on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Americans insist that Ukraine must leave the Donbas \u2026 one way or another,\u201d the official added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ukraine has insisted that any peace deal must involve the war being frozen on current lines. At present, some 30 percent of Donbas is still in Ukrainian hands.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/us-wants-from-ukraine-leave-donbas-one-way-or-another\">https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/us-wants-from-ukraine-leave-donbas-one-way-or-another<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u201cOn the territory issue, Americans are simple: Russia demands Ukraine to give up territories, and Americans keep thinking how to make it happen,\u201d a senior European official familiar with the negotiation process told POLITICO on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe Americans insist that Ukraine must leave the Donbas \u2026 one way or another,\u201d the official added.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has insisted that any peace deal must involve the war being frozen on current lines. At present, some 30 percent of Donbas is still in Ukrainian hands.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/us-wants-from-ukraine-leave-donbas-one-way-or-another\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,390,221,924,728,272,355,314,1545,315,170,311,619,158],"class_list":["post-20686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-diplomacy","tag-donald-trump","tag-eastern-europe","tag-europe","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-invasion","tag-russia","tag-trump","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20687,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20686\/revisions\/20687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}