US EditionRussian police and National Guard will stay in Ukraine’s Donbas postwar, a Kremlin official says
Kremlin official says Russian police and National Guard will administer Donbas postwar; ceasefire depends on Ukrainian troop withdrawal, a condition Ukraine likely rejects.
- On Friday, Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said Russian police and the Russian National Guard will remain in the Donbas region in a postwar scenario, Kommersant reported.
- Claiming the Donbas as Russian territory, Ushakov said the region would be under Russian administrations and a ceasefire could occur only after Ukrainian troops withdraw from the front line.
- Ushakov outlined the staffing plan, saying only Russian National Guard units, not the regular Russian army, would station in Donbas; Rosgvardia numbers about 400,000 and gained heavy weapons authority in 2023.
- The stance has become a major obstacle to compromise as Ukraine is likely to reject Moscow's position, and Moscow warned it would seize territory by force if Ukrainian troops do not withdraw through negotiations.
- As U.S.-led talks continue, fighting and Ukrainian recapture of settlements near Kupiansk underline battlefield stakes while U.S. negotiators face pressure from Donald Trump, U.S. President.
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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.
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