US EditionPutin demanded Ukraine surrender key territory in call with Trump: Report
Putin shifted to demand full control over Donetsk Oblast for peace, offering to concede parts of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, Russia controls 20% of Ukraine, officials said.
- On Oct. 18, Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded that Ukraine hand over full control of Donetsk Oblast to Russia during a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump, The Washington Post reported citing two senior U.S. officials.
- Putin's demand marks a departure from his April position as Russia controls about 20 percent of Ukrainian territory and front lines have largely stagnated over the past year.
- In the exchange, Putin proposed trading territory, offering parts of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson for full control of Donetsk Oblast, while Steve Witkoff pressed Ukraine about Donetsk at a Friday meeting where they left without Tomahawk missiles.
- Trump did not endorse the Russian request in his public statement Friday after the West Wing meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and urged both sides to "stop the killing and make a DEAL."
- Officials privately acknowledge Russia may retain de facto control and say Putin and Trump will continue talks at a planned summit in Hungary in the coming weeks.
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One region for two. That's the cold barter Vladimir Putin proposed to Donald Trump over the phone this week to end the war, US media revealed. Putin demands full control of the strategically crucial Donetsk region in exchange for the partially occupied territories in Kherson and Zaporizhia. According to The Financial Times (FT), Trump urged Ukrainian President Zelenskyy to agree.
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Vladimir Putin asked Donald Trump for Ukraine to surrender full control of Donetsk, a strategically vital region in the east of the country, as a condition for ending the...
Trump appears to support Putin's demand for control of the entire Donetsk region as a condition for peace. That could be fatal for both Ukraine and Europe, writes foreign journalist Erkka Mikkonen.
Putin tells Trump he would drop claims to Zaporizhzhia and Kherson for full control of Donetsk region
Russian President Vladimir Putin told US President Donald Trump during an October 16 phone call that he was prepared to drop claims to the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions—areas partially controlled by Russia—in return for Ukraine ceding the entire Donetsk region, The Washington Post reported, citing two US officials familiar with the conversation. Earlier, Russia’s state news outlet TASS, citing Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov, said the call took pla…
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