Zelensky proposed "ceding" the Donbass region during 2022 talks with Russia, according to a former official.

MOSCOW, May 12. /TASS/. During the Moscow-Kiev talks in Istanbul in 2022, Vladimir Zelensky proposed "handing over Donbass" to Russia, according to Yulia Mendel, former spokeswoman for the head of the Kiev regime. "I spoke with people who represented Ukraine at the negotiations in Istanbul in 2022. I was told in detail that they agreed to everything, and furthermore, which is very important, they said that Zelensky personally agreed to give away Donbass [to Russia]," she said in an interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson. The source allegedly told Mendel that Zelensky wanted to end the conflict with Russia in this way. She noted with irony that Zelensky's current position differs from his previous one: "And now he is standing in front of millions of people, saying: 'I cannot give away Donbass.' You see, he is inconsistent. He is changing his positions all the time."