U.S. floated idea swapping Ukrainian territory for NATO membership, Zelensky says

Verified: 57 outlets in 29 countries have reported this story since Nov 14, 4 of them from Ukraine.

In U.S.-sponsored peace talks this week, Russia returned to hard-line demands that would rewrite the security architecture of Europe by forcing NATO to roll back its troop deployment to where it stood in 1997 - before the alliance began expanding east of Germany. The demands, laid out in negotiating points drafted by Russia and obtained by The Washington Post, mirror ultimatums the Kremlin issued to NATO and the United States in late 2021 and early 2022 while senior Russian officials insisted, falsely, that they would not invade Ukraine. In effect, Russia’s demands would mean that the…