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2025-08-18 17:57
As Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders head to Washington on Monday, details have emerged of the offer that Russia's Vladimir Putin put forward during his summit with Donald Trump in Alaska.
Under Putin's proposal, Kyiv would cede swathes of its eastern land that Moscow has been unable to capture, sources told Reuters. This would involve Kyiv fully withdrawing from Donetsk and Luhansk - which make up the eastern Donbas region.
In return, Russia would pledge to freeze the front lines in the southern Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions. It would return smaller pockets of Ukraine's northern Sumy and northeastern Kharkiv regions that it has occupied, totaling ~170 square miles.
Sources said Putin also sought formal recognition of Russia's sovereignty over Crimea, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014. He also wants Ukraine to be barred from joining NATO, but he'd be open to the nation receiving some kind of security guarantees.
Zelenskyy, along with the leaders of the European Union, NATO, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Finland, will meet Trump at the White House this week to map out a peace deal.
"President Zelenskyy can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight," Trump posted on Truth Social. "Remember how it started. No getting back Obama given Crimea (12 years ago, without a shot being fired!), and NO GOING INTO NATO BY UKRAINE. Some things never change!!!"
"We all equally want to end this war quickly and reliably," Zelenskyy said ahead of the meeting. "And peace must be lasting. Not like it was years ago, when Ukraine was forced to give up Crimea and part of our East - part of Donbas, and Putin simply used it as a springboard for a new attack."