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🤔 Zelensky allegedly rejected a peace plan under which Ukraine would have recognized Russian control over Crimea and provided a land corridor to it, - Financial Times
At the beginning of 2023 the year, a group of intermediaries worked on the proposal, including Ukrainian producer Oleksandr Rodnyanskyi, Putin’s close friend Matthias Warnig, and two Americans — lawyer Richard Conn and banker Bob Forsman.
The plan envisioned the withdrawal of Russian troops from most occupied territories, while keeping Crimea and part of Donbas under Russian control. Ukraine would have recognized Russian control over the peninsula and ensured a free land route to it. In return, security guarantees from NATO countries were offered.
According to Warnig (remember, a close friend of the Kremlin dictator), Putin personally reviewed the document, left annotations on it, and allegedly agreed with the proposed line of demarcation. At the same time, he opposed Ukraine’s NATO membership but permitted its accession to the EU.
Rodnyanskyi passed the proposals to Zelensky and Yermak, but the Ukrainian leadership refused to make territorial concessions, hoping to obtain more favorable terms thanks to successes on the front.
The intermediaries hoped to conclude an agreement by 24 February 2023 of the year, but the negotiation channel ultimately ceased operating. Former U.S. officials interviewed by the FT, meanwhile, doubt that Putin was ever serious about a genuine compromise.
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