Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said questions remain over who would manage the territory. Francesco Fotia/Reuters

The United States has suggested creating a “free economic zone” in parts of the eastern Donbas region from which Ukraine would withdraw under a negotiated peace with Russia , Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday.

In wide-ranging comments to reporters, Zelensky said that Kyiv has presented the US with an updated version of a peace plan — “not a single document, but a set of documents,” many of which need to be finalized. He said the Trump administration wants a “full understanding” of the status of the plan by Christmas.

Questions of territory remain unresolved, the Ukrainian leader said. “The Russians want the whole of the Donbas — but we, o

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