JAKARTA - Senior Kremlin officials said Russian police and the National Guard would remain in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, to oversee the valuable industrial region, even if a peace deal ended the nearly four-year-old war.
Moscow will give its blessing to a ceasefire only after Ukrainian troops withdraw from the front lines, Kremlin adviser Yuri Ushakov said in a statement published on Friday, December 12 in the Russian business daily Kommersant.
"It is very possible that there will be no troops (in Donbas), neither Russian nor Ukrainian," Ushakov told ABC News.
But he said "there will be a National Guard, our police, all that is necessary to maintain order and regulate life."
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For months, American negotiators have tried to navigate the demands of each side as US President Donald Trump urged the Russian war to end immediately and grew increasingly frustrated with the delays.
Efforts to find a compromise that would be possible have encountered major obstacles regarding who is entitled to Ukrainian territory that has been occupied by Russian forces.
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