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Last Updated:August 17, 2025, 07:26 IST
US President Donald Trump served as the messenger to convey Russia's proposal to Zelenskyy during a private briefing held after he met with Putin in Alaska on Friday
Trump, Putin and Zelenskyy (Reuters)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rejected an offer reportedly made by Russian President Vladimir Putin to halt fighting along current front-line positions in return for Kyiv ceding full control of the Donetsk region.
US President Donald Trump served as the messenger to convey Russia’s proposal to Zelenskyy during a private briefing held after he met with Putin in Alaska on Friday.
After the Alaska talks, Trump said Ukraine should move toward a peace deal with Moscow, remarking, “Russia is a very big power, and they’re not."
The Alaska summit, which lasted three hours, was the first face-to-face engagement between Washington and Moscow since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Zelenskyy has turned down the proposal, reported Reuters, citing sources.
Russia already holds around 20 per cent of Ukrainian territory, including nearly three-quarters of Donetsk, which it first moved into in 2014.
Trump added that he and Putin had agreed a peace settlement should be pursued without the precondition of a ceasefire — a condition that Ukraine and its European partners, until now backed by Washington, have consistently insisted on.
Donetsk serves as an industrial region that is one of Moscow’s main targets.
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First Published:August 17, 2025, 07:26 IST
News world 'Russia A Very Big Power': Trump Conveys Putin's Donetsk Demand To Zelenskyy, He Turns Down
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