Territories

21- Territories

- The Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk will be recognised as de facto Russian, even by the United States.

- Kherson and Zaporizhzhia will be frozen along the line of contact.

- Russia will give up the other agreed territories under its control outside the five regions.

- Ukrainian forces will withdraw from the part of Donetsk Oblast currently under their control, and this withdrawal zone will be considered a neutral, demilitarised buffer zone, internationally recognised as territory belonging to the Russian Federation. Russian forces will not enter this demilitarised zone.