US pressures Ukraine to cede Crimea and other occupied regions to Russia

The United States’ plans, in the form of a “final offer” to end the war in Ukraine, involve Kyiv giving up the Crimean peninsula, illegally annexed by Moscow in 2014, and the remaining territories in four other eastern and southern regions over which the Kremlin has been gaining control since the major invasion unleashed in February 2022. All this in exchange for Russia freezing the fighting on the front lines. Furthermore, in a climate of increasing pressure on Kyiv, Washington seeks to force Ukraine to accept not joining NATO — although it will not demand it relinquishes its goal of European Union membership — while lifting the sanctions imposed on Russia. It would be unconstitutional to give up Crimea, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has stated.

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Fuente: El País