{"id":330056,"date":"2025-12-04T13:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/330056\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T13:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:44:07","slug":"russia-will-take-donbas-end-of-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/330056\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia will take Donbas. End of. \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to open-source maps of the conflict, Russian forces now control about 80 percent of the Donbas region, made up of Donetsk and Luhansk. Russia this week claimed it had \u2014 after more than a year of fighting \u2014 captured the key city of Pokrovsk, which Ukraine has rejected<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ceding Donbas was one of the points <\/a>in the 28-point-plan, circulated by U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s team, which drew criticism from Ukrainian and European officials as heavily lopsided in Russia\u2019s favor. An updated proposal watered down some of the more pro-Russian aspects of the initial plan.<\/p>\n

Meetings between U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and Putin to discuss the updated plan yielded no progress toward ending the war in Ukraine<\/a>, and instead saw the Kremlin blaming Europe for thwarting the peace process.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly vowed that Ukraine will not give up Donbas as part of the ceasefire deal as that would give Putin a springboard for a future invasion<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to open-source maps of the conflict, Russian forces now control about 80 percent of the Donbas region,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,12,167487,48658,3,1206,57397,17569,1208,21,19,22,20,25,24,6508,40477,45960],"class_list":["post-330056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-donald-trump","tag-eu-russia-relations","tag-jared-kushner","tag-news","tag-russia","tag-russian-politics","tag-steve-witkoff","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}