#NYP: "The US believes that Ukraine is ready to give up some of its territories de facto

The Trump administration believes that Ukraine could allegedly "de facto" agree to hand over 20% of its territory to Russian invaders as part of a possible peace deal with Moscow, the New York Post reports.
Despite the fact that the terms of a potential peace/truce have not yet been determined, as Kyiv and Moscow are "internally discussing a plan," a senior official in the administration of US President Donald Trump told The Post that they could include the deployment of European forces in Ukraine if the war is stopped and a ceasefire is reached.

"The hard part is what does a security force look like - we're calling that a 'resiliency force,'" the official told The Post.

The official added, "The resiliency force is part of the security guarantees that the Ukrainians want and we hope they get."

Also "on the table" are separate peacekeeping forces to monitor any ceasefire, which would look like a "joint commission" of Russians, Ukrainians, and a third country that is not a NATO member, overseeing the front line to ensure both sides putting their weapons down, The Post writes.

An American official told NYP that the US could also be involved - but not as ground forces, rather as a "monetary force, along with a third party."