President Donald Trump supports a proposal of Russia that wishes to take total control of two Ukrainian regions and freeze the front in two other regions that Moscow only partially controlled, a source of the subject told the subject on Saturday, August 16.
This source, which required anonymity, explained that Russian President Vladimir Putin “asks Ukraine leaves the DonBass”, a territory that brings together Donetsk and Lougansk regions in eastern Ukraine. “Trump is inclined to support this,” added the same source.
Donald Trump met this Saturday by phone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders about their discussions on Friday with Vladimir Putin.
“The Ukrainian president refused to leave the DonBass,” said the subject of the subject. Volodymyr Zelensky rejected any territorial concession, saying that he had his hands tied by the Ukrainian Constitution. But it did not exclude discussing the subject during a trilateral meeting with Trump and Putin.
Putin ready “to freeze the rest of the” Yes “Front the main requests”
The American Daily New York Times also summoned two senior European officials who claim that Donald Trump supports a plan of Vladimir Putin “to end the war in Ukraine by giving up territories that can not yet be conquered in Russian invaders, instead of testing a ceasefire.”
According to British Daily Financial Times, Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump that he was ready to “freeze the rest of the front if his main requests are accepted.” This message was transmitted directly by Donald Trump during his phone call on Saturday morning with Voldymyr Zelensky and European leaders, specifies the Financial Times.
According to the source that spoke with the AFP, US officials have indicated that if Russian applications are accepted, “Putin will not continue the offensive in the (Ukrainian) regions of Kherson and Zaporijia (South), so there would be a kind of frost there.”
“But in fact, everything will depend on Putin’s word of honor,” said the same source.
A few months after launching his invasion of Ukraine, Russia had proclaimed in September 2022 the annexation of the four Ukrainian regions mentioned above, even if their troops still do not control completely.
Russian forces today occupy almost the entire Lougansk region and a large part of the Donetsk region, including their regional capitals.
This is not the case with the regions of Zaporijjia and Kherson, whose main urban centers are still under Ukrainian control. In 2014, Russia had already attached the Crimea Ukrainian peninsula.
Source: BFM TV
