Zelensky a nommé Olga Stefanishyna ambassadrice aux États-Unis 🇺🇸

Zelensky a nommé Olga Stefanishyna, une ancienne ministre de premier plan, ambassadrice de l'Ukraine aux États-Unis, mettant fin à des mois de spéculations. 📰

Elle succède à Oksana Markarova en tant qu'ambassadrice, qui a occupé ce poste pendant six ans, dont plus de trois ans de guerre à grande échelle avec la Russie ⚔️, et est devenue la cible de critiques partisanes de la part des républicains.

Il a été annoncé en juillet que Makarova serait remplacée. 📅

Stefanishyna a servi dans l'administration de Zelensky en tant que vice-Premier ministre pour l'intégration européenne et euro-atlantique 🌍, jouant un rôle majeur dans l'intégration du pays dans les institutions occidentales.

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Trump Is Particularly Intent On Pushing Ukraine to Withdraw Its Troops From the Donbas


The US wants Ukraine to withdraw its troops from the Donbas region, and Washington would then create a “free economic zone” in the parts Kyiv currently controls, Zelensky has said.

Previously, the US had suggested Kyiv should hand over the parts of Donbas it still controlled to Russia, but the Ukrainian president said on Thursday that Washington had now suggested a compromise version in which Ukrainian troops would withdraw, but Russian troops would not advance into the territory.

“Who will govern this territory, which they are calling a ‘free economic zone’ or a ‘demilitarised zone’ – they don’t know,” said the Ukrainian president, speaking with journalists in Kyiv on Thursday.

Zelensky said Ukraine did not believe the plan was fair without guarantees that Russian troops would not simply take over the zone after a Ukrainian withdrawal.

Zelensky said: “If one side’s troops have to retreat and the other side stays where they are, then what will hold back these other troops, the Russians?

Or what will stop them disguising themselves as civilians and taking over this free economic zone? This is all very serious. It’s not a fact that Ukraine would agree to it, but if you are talking about a compromise then it has to be a fair compromise.”

He said if Ukraine did agree to such a scheme, there would need to be elections or a referendum to ratify it, saying that only “the Ukrainian people” could make decisions on territorial concessions.

Under the US plans, said Zelensky, Ukraine would withdraw from Donbas, where Russia is advancing, while the frontlines would be frozen in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions. Russia would give up a few small pockets of land it controls in other regions.

Zelensky has been under immense pressure from Trump to sign up to the US peace plan. In recent days Trump has attacked Zelensky, claiming he “has not even read” the draft peace plan and suggesting he lacks legitimacy and Ukraine should hold an election.

Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said on Thursday: “The president is extremely frustrated with both sides of this war, and he is sick of meetings just for the sake of meeting.”

Zelensky said the Ukrainian negotiating team had sent their revised plan back to Washington on Wednesday, and that questions over territory and control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant were two of the remaining sticking points.

“It’s not the final plan; it’s a reaction to what we received (…) the plan is constantly being worked on and edited, and this is a continuous process that is still going on,” he said.

If Washington and Kyiv do agree, the much bigger question remains of whether Vladimir Putin is really ready to sign a deal or is merely buying time with fake negotiations and hoping to continue his military advance over the winter.

In Berlin, the Nato secretary general Rutte said on Thursday that if Putin was allowed to get his way in Ukraine then the prospect of war in Europe would become more real, warning that the continent had been “quietly complacent” over the threat from Russia.

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