European and NATO officials acknowledge that talk of territorial concessions no longer raises as many eyebrows as it once did, and diplomats frame it not as \u201cland-for-peace\u201d but rather as land for Ukraine\u2019s security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think everybody has more or less reached this conclusion. It\u2019s hard to say it publicly because it would be a way of saying we are going to reward aggression,\u201d said G\u00e9rard Araud, a former French ambassador to Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s certainly not fringe anymore,\u201d said a Western official who, like others interviewed for this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s unclear exactly what a deal might look like, as diplomats weigh blueprints of \u201cpeace plans\u201d floated since Russia\u2019s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. With Russian forces in control of roughly a fifth of the country \u2014 including in the eastern Donbas region and the annexed Crimean Peninsula \u2014 freezing today\u2019s front lines or outlining a demarcation line would mean Ukraine ceding swaths of its territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p> Ukraine\u2019s European allies eye once-taboo \u2018land-for-peace\u2019 negotiations https:\/\/t.co\/OHvlOH5hyT<\/a><\/p>— Earl Anthony Wayne (@EAnthonyWayne) November 14, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>