The US is making its offer of security guarantees for a peace deal in Ukraine conditional on Kyiv ceding all of the country’s eastern region of Donbas to Russia, Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Reuters in an interview. “I would very much like the American side to understand that the eastern part of our country is part of our security guarantees,” he said. Russia sought to blackmail the US by offering to stop sharing military intelligence with Iran if, in return, Washington would cut off Ukraine from its intelligence data, Zelenskyy said on Wednesday. Ukrainian drone strikes killed two people on Wednesday in Russia’s border region of Belgorod, the regional governor said. Other European nations have stepped up efforts to disrupt Russia’s so-called shadow fleet of tankers used by Moscow to fund its four-year war against Ukraine.

Source: The Guardian March 26, 2026 02:44 UTC