By Reuters
January 27, 2026
A serviceman of the 28th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces walks next to a Humvee covered with a makeshift anti-drone protection at a training ground near a front line
Jan 27 (Reuters) – The Trump administration has signalled to Ukraine that U.S. security guarantees depend on Kyiv agreeing to a peace deal likely requiring it to cede the Donbas region to Russia, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing eight people familiar with the talks.
Washington has also indicated it could offer Ukraine more weapons to strengthen its peacetime army if Kyiv agreed to withdraw forces from the parts of the eastern region it controls, the newspaper said.
Reuters could not immediately verify the report. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that a U.S. document on security guarantees for Ukraine was “100% ready” and Kyiv is now awaiting a time and place for it to be signed.
Zelenskiy has consistently said that Ukraine’s territorial integrity must be upheld in any peace deal to end the war.
Ukraine is increasingly uncertain whether Washington will commit to security guarantees, a senior Ukrainian official told the Financial Times, saying the U.S. “stops each time the security guarantees can be signed.”
Kyiv wants the guarantees confirmed before conceding any territory. However, the U.S. believes Ukraine must give up the Donbas for the war to end and is not pressuring Russian President Vladimir Putin to drop that demand, the report added.
“This is totally false — the US’s only role in the peacemaking process is to bring both sides together to make a deal,” Anna Kelly, the deputy White House press secretary, told FT.
A person familiar with the U.S. position told the newspaper that Washington was “not trying to force any territorial concessions upon Ukraine,” adding that security guarantees depend on both sides agreeing to a peace deal.
The Kremlin said on Monday the question of territory remained fundamental to any deal to end the fighting in Ukraine, the TASS news agency reported after weekend talks in Abu Dhabi.
Ukraine Breaking News :
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“Preliminarily, the next talks between Ukraine, Russia, and the US will take place on Sunday, February 1 — President Zelenskyy.”
THIS IS NO DEAL AT ALL, SURRENDER AND WE WILL PROTECT YOU…………………..ONLY THERE WILL BE NO PROTECTION EITHER!
We saw how the Iranians were protected after TACO told them to go onto the streets and protest. Ukraine don’t need that type of protection.
Krasnov wants putler to get enough out of Ukraine to be able to claim victory to his genocide-loving fan base.
Unconfirmed but still very dismaying if true.
Furthermore it is consistent with everything coming out of the putin wing of the GOP.
Trump advisors Elbridge Colby and Bryan Lanza were saying it in 2024. Kellogg was saying it in his “America First” report in April of that year.
The feckless Europeans are defacto accepting this; they know that their “coalition of the willing”’will only become operational in the event of a capitulation by Ukraine.
Unrelated, but possibly of interest:
Ukrainian-born Alex Vindman, Trump impeachment witness and twin brother of U.S. congressman Eugene Vindman, is running for the US Senate as a Democrat in Florida.
If Alex Vindman clinches the Democratic nomination, he will challenge the Republican US senator Ashley Moody, a former state attorney general who was appointed to fill the seat vacated by Marco Rubio as he became secretary of state for Trump’s second presidency.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/27/alex-vindman-running-florida-senate-trump
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We saw from the Budapest Memorandum what a security guarantee from the U.S. is worth. Nothing. What is a security guarantee worth from someone so despicable as Trump? What is less than nothing?