KYIV, Aug 16 (Reuters) - By proposing to abandon the ceasefire in favour of a fast peace agreement, U.S. President Donald Trump is taking Russian President Vladimir Putin's position, a senior Ukrainian parliamentarian said on Saturday.
"Unfortunately, Trump has taken Putin's position, and this was Putin's demand," Oleksandr Merezhko, head of the Ukrainian parliament's foreign affairs committee, told Reuters.
"In Putin's view, a peace agreement means several dangerous things – Ukraine not joining NATO, his absurd demands for denazification and demilitarisation, the Russian language and the Russian church," he said.