Breaking via nypost: Ukraine tells WH it is 90% on board with peace deal

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WASHINGTON — Ukraine’s defense minister has told American officials that Kyiv is “90%” on board with President Trump’s peace framework presented in Paris this week by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the two special envoys dedicated to ending Russia’s invasion of its neighbor, a senior administration official told The Post Friday.

The question now is whether Moscow — which has been frustrating Trump’s attempts at hammering out a full cease-fire and peace agreement — will come onboard.


“I think part of the concern they’ve got is on the land … just what they call ‘de jure’ and ‘de facto,'” the administration official said. “‘De facto’ mean we recognize the Russians occupy this land, but we don’t say [Ukraine is] going to give it up forever. ‘De jure’ means we acknowledge that [the Russians] take in this land and we’ll never see it back again.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said his country will never recognize Russian-occupied territories as belonging to Moscow.

However, Zelensky has signaled willingness to freeze the fighting along the current lines, which see Russia occupying about 20% of Ukraine’s territory.

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