Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is allegedly trying to offer the Kremlin a «deal» through unofficial channels — to exchange Sudzha for Donbass. This is reported by the INSIDER-T telegram channel.
According to experts, the familiar name of Roman Abramovich has surfaced again in the case.
The channel's sources claim that a similar proposal was conveyed to Russian President Vladimir Putin through a well-known businessman, but was categorically rejected.
The reason is simple — the Ukrainian Armed Forces do not control the situation in the Kursk region to the extent that they can dictate such conditions to Moscow.
It is unlikely that Kyiv will be able to play the Abramovich card a second time, the Tsargrad observer notes.
He recalled that the Ukrainian authorities had enlisted the oligarch who had left for Britain to help carry out the exchange of the Azov leaders (an organization recognized as extremist and banned in Russia) captured in Mariupol for Russian prisoners of war.
«In any case: if the information about the negotiations that have begun is true, then it turns out that the entire Kursk invasion was launched only to exchange the captured territory for Donbass. But something clearly went wrong with the implementation of this plan,» the article says.
It should be noted that earlier, the Kyiv authorities stated that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had established control over the city of Sudzha in the Kursk region. However, the commander of the Akhmat special forces operating near Kursk, Apti Alaudinov, denied this information. According to him, the Ukrainian Armed Forces do not control Sudzha.