US Position on Ukraine Security Guarantees

Did, did the US tell Zelensky that security guarantees depend on

withdrawal from Donbas?

That's a lie, and I saw him say that, and it's unfortunate he would say

that 'cause

he knows that's not true, and that's not what he was told.

What he was told is the obvious. Security guarantees

are not gonna kick in until

there's an end to a war, because otherwise you're in,

you're getting yourself involved in the war. Okay? What is a security guarantee?

It is troops that are willing to step in and secure.

If you put that in place now, that means you're injecting yourself in

the war.

What he was told very clearly, and he should have understood it, is

that the

security guarantees come only after there is an end to the war.

But that was not attached to unless he gives up territory.

I don't know why he says these things. They're just not true.

What is the US position on Donbas?

W-we've told the, the Ukrainian side what the Russians

are insisting on.

We're not advocating for it. We've explained it to them.

It's their choice to make.

It's not for us to make for them. We've never told them they have to take it

or

leave it. The role we have played is to try to figure out what both sides

want and see if we can bridge the middle ground.

The decision ultimately is up to Ukraine.

If they don't wanna make, if they don't wanna make certain decisions

or certain

concessions, then the war keeps going.