DISINFO: US interests prevent Ukraine from ending Donbas war
SUMMARY
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will not be able to end the Donbas conflict given that this would run contrary to US interests.
RESPONSE
The claim advances recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives casting Ukraine as a US client state, and implicitly painting the ongoing armed aggression in Ukraine as an internal affair. Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity has been violated by acts of aggression by the Russian armed forces since February 2014. Washington along with Kyiv, maintains that its peaceful resolution is contingent on the fulfilment of the Minsk agreements. See here for a related claim that Ukraine owes its very statehood to Washington's geopolitical manoeuvres.