Russian dictator vladimir putin hinted during a telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump that he was ready to give up part of the occupied territories of Ukraine - if Kyiv cedes Donetsk.
This is reported by The Washington Post.
According to two senior officials familiar with the details of the negotiations, putin offered to end the war in exchange for full control over the Donetsk Region, promising in return to withdraw troops from parts of the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson Regions.
"This is a somewhat smaller territorial claim than the one he made in August in Anchorage. Some White House officials presented it as progress," the publication quotes one of the interlocutors as saying.
Neither the Kremlin nor the White House commented on The Washington Post's information.
Earlier, after a visit to Moscow, the US President's Special Envoy Steve Witkoff stated that russia allegedly "made concessions to Ukraine on the issue of five regions." According to him, "the concessions that russia agreed to are not to occupy all of Ukraine." At the same time, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly stressed that the Kremlin's demands for the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the Donetsk and Luhansk Regions are unacceptable. "There can be no concessions to the occupiers," he emphasized.
As a reminder, russia's major summer offensive on the front in Ukraine failed. The aggressor lost up to 100,000 soldiers killed, and territorial gains were meager.
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