Archive: https://archive.today/wMGvd From the post: >>The Trump administration has indicated to Ukraine that any US security guarantees are contingent on Kyiv first agreeing to a peace plan that would see it surrendering territory to Vladimir Putin. According to the Financial Times, which cited eight people familiar with talks, the US is calling on Ukraine to give up the Donbas region, its industrial heartland made up of Luhansk and Donetsk. The White House also suggested it would promise Kyiv more weaponry to reinforce its peacetime army, but only on the condition that it agrees to withdraw its forces from the parts of the eastern region it still holds, according to two sources.