Why Russia Won’t Agree to Peace Without Ukraine’s ‘Fortress Belt’ | WSJ

• [Narrator] This is the so-called Fortress Belt, one of the most fortified parts of Ukraine. Located in the Eastern Donetsk region, it is among the most coveted pieces of Ukrainian territory that Russia has been trying, but so far, failing to capture since 2014. But a proposed peace plan put forward by the Trump administration would hand control of this territory to Moscow, something that Kyiv has previously said it cannot accept.The Fortress Belt runs for roughly 30 miles along the western part of the Don ...