US EditionPutin’s Price for Peace: Everything You Need to Know in Five Minutes
Putin seeks territorial concessions from Ukraine including Donbas and Crimea in a peace plan presented to Trump aiming to end conflict through diplomatic means, Reuters reported.
- Amid talks in Anchorage, Putin presented an alleged peace plan to former President Donald Trump, and Reuters published the outline of his demands to end the Ukraine war.
- Ahead of the Alaska meeting, Moscow demanded that Kiev completely withdraw troops from Donetsk and Luhansk regions and ban Ukraine from joining NATO.
- Accounts from both sides say talks explored swapping occupied territory for Western security guarantees, with Russia controlling a fifth of Ukraine, including about three-quarters of Donetsk province.
- Amid Western insistence, European leaders will travel to Washington tomorrow to meet Trump and Zelensky, emphasizing Kyiv's consent and unchanged borders, accounts from both sides.
- The White House is exploring a mutual-defence-style guarantee for Ukraine, and accounts from both sides say a trilateral summit with Russia and Ukraine is expected on August 22.
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The Russian leadership has long published its conditions for an end to the war against Ukraine, and Vladimir Putin confirmed them immediately before the Alaska Summit.
US President Donald Trump would have been ready to interrupt the discussions with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska because of Putin's intransigence on his request to attach the entire Donetsk region. Axios said that, in Alaska...
After Donald Trump's meeting with the Russian President, Moscow's demands become known: Putin wants territorial gains and the official language Russian in Ukraine.
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During his meeting with Trump, Putin reportedly demanded full control over the Donbas region, which comprises the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces. Ukraine still has control over merely 30% of the former, but Putin has long coveted it. Here's what we know.
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U.S. President Donald Trump (R) and Russian President Vladimir Putin leave at the conclusion of a press conference on Aug. 15, 2025 in Alaska. Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesIf you’re confused about the aims, conduct and outcome of the summit meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin held in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15, 2025, you’re probably not alone. As summits go, the meeting broke with many conventions of d…
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