Yaroslav Trofimov
Saying as Witkoff did here that the overwhelming majority of people in the four Ukrainian regions (Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk, Luhansk) voted to be part of Russia is preposterous. The 2022 referendums were a complete sham. The majority of people in Zaporizhzhia lived then and lives now in areas under Ukrainian rule where there was no referendum at all.
Yaroslav Trofimov
It’s clear from this that the only difference between Steve Witkoff’s and Vladmir Putin’s views on the war in Ukraine is that Putin actually knows the names of all the five Ukrainian regions he wants to keep.