Update: Putin and Trump will meet in Alaska next week. Originally, President Trump said he wouldn’t meet alone with Russian President Putin, but Putin and Zelenskyy hate each other so much, it probably won’t work. Maybe this will.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Russian president Vladimir Putin proposed a cease-fire if Ukraine gives them Eastern Ukraine, also known as Donbas. They also want global recognition of its claims. European officials have serious reservations about the proposal.
All Russia wants to do is commit to not fight at this time. This is allegedly the offer Putin presented to US special envoy, Steve Witkoff in Moscow.
Trump said Wednesday the offer wasn’t a breakthrough, but it was enough to begin organizing a summit meeting next week.
Russia Wants a Sweet Deal
Russia wants Donetsk and Luhansk and Crimea which was seized in 2014.
Europeans want to know what happens with Zaporizhia and Kherson.
In Putin’s plan, Ukraine first withdraws. Then, Putin and Trump would agree on a final peace plan that would be negotiated with President Zelenskyy. That sounds like a sweet deal for Russia, and a bad one for the West, but it’s just an opener.
Kyiv said they weren’t opposed to the proposals in principle, but a cease-fire would have to be a prerequisite which Russia will not agree to, at least not yet.
Trump and his national security team are discussing potential paths to peace.
Putin Brings in His Buddy Xi
Putin involved President Xi in a phone call on the matter of peace to let the world know how tight they still are.
China is reportedly pleased to see Russia and the United States maintaining contact and improving ties to advance a political resolution of the Ukraine crisis, President Xi Jinping said in a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday.
Beijing will maintain its stance on the need for peace talks and a diplomatic solution to the conflict, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV quoted Xi as telling Putin.
President Trump said there would be an exchange of land, and some land would be returned. He also thinks Russia is losing far more soldiers than Ukraine. That is hard to believe, but who knows.
Eastern Ukraine and Crimea are among the most valuable land in Ukraine. It’s roughly 50% Russian, but a poll taken in 2022 found that allegedly 82% of Russians living throughout Ukraine did not believe any part of Ukraine belonged to Russia. They allegedly wanted to fight instad.
Putin already has Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. I do not take seriously anything from the WSJ tabloid or the EU nations. They only want war. Trump has a lot at stake here. If he lets Z ruin negotiations again, he looks weak. Plus, Trump has been posturing, considering arming Ukraine more, which only leads to the irrational Z being less… Read more »
The only reason Russia fought this war in the first place was that Putin’s one and only wish was stepped on by the Globalists. Putin asked that NO NATO STATE be on his border, so the “powers that wanna be” IMMEDIATELY started arming Ukraine and trying to get the country into NATO. War Lords like Lindsay Graham are the reason… Read more »
Yes, you’re so right. What a mess.
Also, the 2 international agreements on Ukraine mandated neutrality. So it was more than a request by Putin.
Russia voluntarily made Ukraine independent.
NATO has been taken over by the globalists. It has overstepped its original charter. How much money laundering, kick backs, and child trafficking has been going on? What is real and what is fake? Sean Penn was filming a war movie there while Russia and Ukraine fought? Senators McCain and Obama … what were they up to back then? It… Read more »