UPDATE | RUSSIA / UKRAINE 🇷🇺🇺🇦
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UPDATE | RUSSIA / UKRAINE 🇷🇺🇺🇦
Putin says Russia's planned “security zone” inside Ukrainian territory will not be open to negotiation in any future peace talks with Kyiv.
Speaking during a visit to a military command post, Putin said Russian forces had been tasked with establishing the buffer zone following Ukraine's 2024–2025 incursion into the Kursk region.
He presented the operation as necessary to protect Russia's border regions and said Moscow does not intend to negotiate over it.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov claims the planned zone extends along 660 km of the border, with approximately 70% already under Russian control.
Russia is effectively declaring that part of Ukrainian territory should remain under its military control regardless of future negotiations.
That does not amount to formal annexation, but it introduces another territorial demand into an already difficult diplomatic process.
Source: @GeoInsider
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