Russia are never going to agree to this...

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[–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)
  1. In the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions, the line of troop deployment as of the date of this agreement is de facto recognized as the line of contact.

I'm a bit confused, does this mean Ukraine is ceding territory to Russia?

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    No, this means that the current front is accepted to be the starting point for negotiation. This is a standard method of freezing the status quo during a ceasefire, pending further talks about a long-term solution.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    IANAL but I think this means the conflict gets frozen along those lines without ceding this territory to Russia. If Russia violates the terms and conflict gets reignited Ukraine will in their right to try to recover this territory.

    If Ukraine would cede this territory then attacking it in eventual future conflicts would mean that Ukraine is actually invading Russia.

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