RADDATZ: Can you name any concessions that Putin made during this meeting?
RUBIO: I wouldn't name them on your program
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 17 August 2025 at 16:28
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So basically Russia made no concessions. Rubio is such a pathetic man, don't let this idiot in a few years from now try to claim he was the moderate in Trump's admin and held him back from being insane, which he likely will do if MAGA dies without Trump. He will try his "I'm really a moderate!" campaign to try be the next President. Remember this when the snivelling coward hid behind Trump's ever word.
The “concession” Russia agreed to is not to seize all of Ukraine, Witkoff said.
— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) 17 August 2025 at 14:40
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What a fucking dumbass this real estate investor is.
🤡 Putin demands to "surrender" to him 15 times more territories than he is ready to return to Ukraine, to end the war, — Reuters.
This concerns the unoccupied part of Donbas, which is about 6,600 km²: in return, Russia will give back Sumy and Kharkiv regions, the area of which is ~ 440 km².
— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) 17 August 2025 at 11:27
This is what they think a fair deal is. They couldn't even get a bigger swap, like the rest of Kherson in exchange for Donbas. No, they managed to get a 6,600 km2 in exchange for ~440km2 deal. America is telling Ukraine to effectively officially surrender Crimea (America will recognise as Russian) and surrender the whole of Donbas and leave Kherson/Zaporizhia for another day, half occupied in exchange for less than 0.1% of returned territory. That's officially giving up...I don't know the exact % that Crimea + Donbas make up for Ukraine but I think it's over 10%, in exchange for 0.1%.
