{"id":1376719,"date":"2026-04-01T14:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/peskov-on-donbas-zelensky-must-make-a-decision-today\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:57:09","slug":"peskov-on-donbas-zelensky-must-make-a-decision-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/peskov-on-donbas-zelensky-must-make-a-decision-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Peskov on Donbas: Zelensky must make a decision today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is supposed to make a decision to withdraw Ukrainian troops from Donbas “today.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

He made this statement during a briefing on April 1.<\/p>\n

“As for two months, it’s not about two months. Zelenskyy must make a decision today to have Ukrainian troops leave the territory of Donbas and go beyond the administrative borders of the ‘Donetsk People’s Republic’,” Peskov said.<\/p>\n

He also added that, in his opinion, such a decision should have been made earlier.<\/p>\n

“In theory, Zelensky should have made such a decision yesterday – as we said, to take responsibility and make such a difficult decision,” the Kremlin representative said.<\/p>\n

Peskov claims that the withdrawal of troops could supposedly “save the lives of a large number of people” and “allow us to stop the hot phase of this war.”<\/p>\n

He also commented on the pause in negotiations between Ukraine, the US, and Russia, explaining it by the American side’s busy schedule.<\/p>\n

“The pause is due to the fact that American negotiators are currently busy with other matters… and cannot be actively involved in the process,” Peskov said.<\/p>\n

As a reminder, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that the US is offering Ukraine a complete withdrawal from Donbas in exchange for security guarantees necessary for a peace agreement.<\/a><\/p>\n

As previously reported, Russia stated that Ukraine has two months to withdraw from Donbas, otherwise the terms of the war will change.<\/a>
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is supposed to make a decision to withdraw Ukrainian troops from Donbas “today.” He made this statement during a briefing on April 1. “As for two months, it’s not about two months. Zelenskyy must make a decision today to have Ukrainian troops leave the territory […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1248594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76885],"class_list":["post-1376719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1248594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}