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According to people known on the matter, Vladimir Putin has proposed to stop the Ukraine attack across the present line as part of an attempt to reach the peace agreement with US President Donald Trump.
During a meeting in St. Petersburg earlier this month, the President of Russia told Trump’s special envoy Steve Witcoof that Moscow could quit four partially occupied Ukrainian territories under control, three people said.
The concepts for a potential settlement in the United States have wandered in which Washington recognizes Russian ownership of the Crimean Peninsula of Ukraine, adding people, as well as recognizing the Kremlin’s De -Facto control over at least four regions.
This proposal has been the first formal indication since the first month of the war three years ago that Russia could withdraw from his maximum claim to end the invasion of Russia.
However, European officials briefed the US efforts to end the war that Putin would probably use Trump to accept Trump as Russia’s other claims and to force Ukraine as a fighter to be trusted by Trump.
“There is a lot of pressure on Kiev now to give up things that Trump can claim victory,” said one of them.
Ukrainian officials are on Wednesday to discuss the latest proposals with European and US officials in London. However, Witcoof and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio have withdrawn from the meeting, according to US and European officials. Trump’s Ukraine Ambassador Keith Kelog is expected to be present. Putin’s foreign policy adviser said on Tuesday that the Russian Newswair said that Witkoff would visit Moscow later this week.
Putin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov Foot told: “We are talking to Americans. We’re talking to Americans. The work takes a lot of time, so it is difficult to expect immediate results, and the work cannot be done publicly.”
Trump posted on social media on Sunday that he hoped that Ukraine and Russia “would make a deal this week” and then “America will start business with the United States, which is getting richer, and creating fate!”
The White House in the United States expects to outline a possible agreement at a meeting in Paris last week with European and Ukrainian officials. Ukrainian President Vloadimire Jensky said on Tuesday that he did not outline specific steps to end the Russian war from Trump. However, he said that once he was in a ceasefire, he would have been ready for direct discussion with Putin.
“There are signals, ideas, discussions, but this is not an official proposal,” said Jelnsky. If this national official proposal comes, he said, “We will answer”.
Senior Ukrainian officials told FT that they were suitable for the concept of something floating by Trump and his party without specifying any of them. The US proposals include a separate, nonto military forces to help monitor the ceasefire over a Demilitarized zone, which is more widely expanded to more than a thousand kilometers, in addition to the establishment of a European peacekeeping team in Ukraine.
These forces will work jointly with the Ukrainian and Russian forces, which observes Armistis on their own part of their contact lines.
Ukraine will promise not to re-accept the Russian-occupied territory under a possible agreement, when Russia will agree to stop its army slow advance.
It is unclear whether Trump has officially asked Ukraine to officially recognize Russia’s Crimea connection. However, Jensky revisited his position on the Black Sea Peninsula on Tuesday: “Ukraine will not recognize the occupation of Crimea. It is our region, the people of Ukraine, there is nothing to discuss.”
Russia has also rejected some of America’s suggestions, including military presence for NATO countries in Ukraine.
However, people familiar with the matter said that Putin would probably be prepared on the basis of its previous claim for complete control over the four frontline Ukrainian territory – Donetsk, Luhanson and Japorizzia – such as the United States denying Ukraine, such as Ukraine.
Although Putin introduced the Constitutional Amendments in 2021, the Constitutional Amendments to prevent Russia from renouncing their demands, Constantin Rechukov, editor of the Kremlin-Wagan newspaper, claimed in a column on Sunday claimed that Moscow had now ended Kursin-it ended a Russian. Percent “is again under control.
“When they release the last half percent, when the soldiers reached them, wherever they can stop,” Rimchukov wrote to Nezvisimaya Ghazita.
“It is believed that Trump realizes this, thank Witcoof.
Putin announced the attachment of southeast Ukrainian provinces at a great event in September 2022, though Russia did not completely control any of them at that time. Russia has not yet fully controlled any of the four regions, though it has kept the regional capital of Donetsk and Luhansk since the first secret attack on Eastern Ukraine with the use of local proxy forces in the 21st.
Although Russia was retreated from some regions occupied in the autumn of 2022, Putin said last year that Ukraine did not remove its army from the front line and not fully controlled the four provinces of Russia, but regularly attacked, but regularly attacked, regularly attacked.
The demand for a peace agreement in the eastern Russia has been included in Ukraine’s neutral and renounces its NATO aspirations, recognition of Russia’s demand for connected territories, Western sanctions relief and promise to reduce NATO forces in Russia’s nearest member states.
A spokesman for the state department says they cannot comment on the “discussion of the discussion”.
Additional Report of James Polytie in Washington and Kiev Fabris Departage
