US EditionRussian police and National Guard will stay in Ukraine’s Donbas postwar, a Kremlin official says
Kremlin adviser Ushakov said Russian police and National Guard will oversee Donbas post-war, with Moscow conditioning ceasefire on Ukrainian troop withdrawal.
- A senior Kremlin official says that the Russian police and National Guard will remain in eastern Ukraine's Donbas to oversee the region, even if a peace settlement ends the war.
- Moscow will give its blessing to a ceasefire only after Ukraine's forces have withdrawn from the front line.
- Ushakov told Kommersant it's entirely possible that there won't be any troops, either Russian or Ukrainian in a postwar scenario, but there will be the National Guard and Russian police to maintain order.
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A senior Kremlin official said today that Russian police and the National Guard will remain in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas and monitor it even if a peace deal ends Russia's nearly four-year war in Ukraine.
Kremlin aide suggests Donbas ‘demilitarized zone’ with Russian police and National Guard presence
The Kremlin could turn the Donbas into a “demilitarized zone” with a Russian National Guard (Rosgvardia) and police presence, but only if Ukrainian troops were to also withdraw from the region, a top aide to President Vladimir Putin said on Friday. “It’s entirely possible that there won’t be any troops there, neither Russian nor Ukrainian. But there will be the Russian National Guard, our police, everything necessary to maintain order and organ…
Kremlin official says Russian police and National Guard to stay in Ukraine’s Donbas even after peace
A senior Kremlin official says that the Russian police and National Guard will remain in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas to oversee the prized industrial region, even if a peace settlement ends the nearly four-year war — a possibility that is likely to be rejected by Ukrainian officials as U.S.-led negotiations drag on.
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Russian police and National Guard will stay in Ukraine's Donbas postwar, a Kremlin official says
A senior Kremlin official says Russian police and the National Guard will stay on in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas even if a peace settlement ends the war.
The remarks by Kremlin adviser Yuri Ushakov underscore Moscow's ambition to maintain a presence in Donbas after the war. Ukraine is likely to reject such a position as U.S.-led negotiations drag on, according to the AP. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian units had recaptured several settlements and neighborhoods near the city of Kupiansk, in the northeastern Kharkiv region, following a months-long operation aimed at…
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