{"id":1385347,"date":"2026-04-22T22:53:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/lets-not-go-to-putinland-zelenskyy-reacted-to-rumors-about-renaming-donbas\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T22:53:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:53:48","slug":"lets-not-go-to-putinland-zelenskyy-reacted-to-rumors-about-renaming-donbas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/lets-not-go-to-putinland-zelenskyy-reacted-to-rumors-about-renaming-donbas\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Let&#8217;s not go to Putinland&#8221;: Zelenskyy reacted to rumors about renaming Donbas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reacted to information from the New York Times that the Ukrainian side allegedly proposed renaming Donbas in honor of US President Donald Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> As Ukrinform reports, the head of state <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrinform.ua\/rubric-polytics\/4115458-zelenskij-prokomentuvav-stattu-nyt-pro-donnilend-lise-oficijni-nazvi.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> this during an online briefing on WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p> Zelensky denied information from an influential American publication that Ukraine allegedly proposed renaming Donbas to &#8220;Donnyland.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;During my negotiations, there were no other terms than Donetsk region, Luhansk region, our Donbas, the territory of Ukraine. Accordingly, there are documents in which all this is stated,&#8221; Zelenskyy emphasized.<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/personality-cult-or-imperial-fantasies-why-does-trump-need-a-triumphal-arch\/\">Personality cult or imperial fantasies: why does Trump need a triumphal arch?<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> At the same time, the head of state added, regarding other names, he cannot comment on any dialogues of a different nature between the parties.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;In my opinion, the main thing is that the Donetsk region and the Luhansk region remain Ukrainian land. And that&#8217;s how it is. So that there is no &#8220;Putinland&#8221;. This, I think, is the most important thing,&#8221; Zelensky noted.<\/p>\n<p> Recall that a previously published publication by The New York Times claimed that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukrainski-perehovornyky-zaproponuvaly-nazvaty-chastynu-donbasu-donnylendom-zmi\/\">the Ukrainian side was considering an option called &#8220;Donnyland&#8221;<\/a> to encourage the Trump administration to more actively counter the Kremlin&#8217;s territorial encroachments.<\/p>\n<p> Another option allegedly envisaged the creation of a semi-autonomous entity in this territory based on the \u201cMonaco model.\u201d It was a microstate with offshore status to attract investment.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reacted to information from the New York Times that the Ukrainian side allegedly proposed renaming Donbas in honor of US President Donald Trump. As Ukrinform reports, the head of state said this during an online briefing on WhatsApp. Zelensky denied information from an influential American publication that Ukraine allegedly proposed renaming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1385318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76885],"class_list":["post-1385347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385347","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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1385318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}