US EditionPutin's demand to Ukraine: give up Donbas, no NATO and no Western troops, sources say
- On August 15, 2025, Vladimir Putin met Donald Trump in Alaska for a nearly three-hour summit discussing potential compromises on Ukraine.
- Putin demanded that Ukraine withdraw from all parts of Donbas it controls, renounce NATO ambitions, remain neutral, and exclude Western troops from Ukraine, amid ongoing war conditions.
- Kyiv firmly rejected these terms, viewing them as surrender, and insists joining NATO is a constitutional strategic goal and their best security guarantee.
- Russia occupies nearly 88% of the Donbas region and roughly 73% of the territories in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, while showing readiness to cede some limited areas it holds in Kharkiv, Sumy, and Dnipropetrovsk as part of potential negotiations.
- Despite Putin's expressed readiness to compromise and hopes for peace, skepticism remains among Western leaders, and a peace deal depends on Ukraine ceding contested eastern territory.
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Front lines in the regions of Zaporija and Kherson would still be paralysed. Ukraine did not respond but refused to give up territory. Trump encouraged Ukraine to attack Russia if it wanted to win.
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Putin's demand to Ukraine: give up Donbas, no NATO and no Western troops, sources say
Vladimir Putin is demanding that Ukraine give up all of the eastern Donbas region, renounce ambitions to join NATO, remain neutral and keep Western troops out of the country, three sources familiar with top-level Kremlin thinking told Reuters.
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