Kremlin foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov said on Friday that a ceasefire in Ukraine is only possible after Kyiv's forces withdraw from the entire Donbas region, with the area they currently control taken over by Russian National Guard,

Ushakov says postwar Donbass may see no Russian or Ukrainian troops, but National Guard and police maintaining order there.

Russia has signalled that it will agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine only if Kyiv withdraws all its troops from the Donbas region, insisting that any remaining Ukrainian-held areas be placed under the control of its National Guard.

The Kremlin could turn the Donbas into a “demilitarized zone” with a Russian National Guard (Rosgvardia) and police presence, but only if Ukrainian troops were to also withdraw from the region, a top aide to President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.

According to Viktor Zolotov, the chief of the Rosgvardiya, the organization has established tank units as part of a wider militarization process. Zolotov is Putin’s former bodyguard. Unlike the Russian military, which follows an established chain of ...

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Zelenskyy was meeting with political leaders and lawmakers in Dublin on his first official visit. Ireland is officially neutral and isn’t a member of NATO, but has sent nonlethal military support to Ukraine. More than 100,000 Ukrainians have moved to Ireland since Russia launched its war on Feb. 24, 2022.