The president of Russia, Vladimir Putinhas proposed to keep the entire region of the Donbaswhich represents almost all of the east of Ukrainein exchange for paralyzing its offensive in the south of the Combat Front and ending new attacks in the rest of the country as One of the conditions to accept a possible peace agreement With the Ukrainian government.
As confirmed by sources close to the summit that Putin maintained this Friday in Alask Donetsk Y Luganskpartially incorporated into Moscow- the Russian president would order the immediate arrest of the offensive on the fronts of Zaporiyia and Jersón, in the south of the country, they inform the ‘Financial Times’, the US chain NBC and the Bloomberg agency.
These same sources indicate that Putin would have promised to stop any other type of attack against Ukrainesuch as drones with drones and cruise missiles that usually performs against the center and west of the country.
Putin moved the message this Friday to Trumpwho dedicated the following hours to communicate the offer to European leaders, in what the Russian president, again according to these sources, understands as a “territorial concession.” However, the president also notified his American interlocutor that He has not abandoned the rest of the so -called “fundamental” conditions to definitely end the conflict.
Moscow, it should be remembered, requires that Ukraine assume a permanent status as non -nuclear power, remote from NATOwith full guarantees for the Russian community and, above all, the recognition of what Moscow calls as “the new territorial reality” represented in the Ukrainian territories that have been incorporated, a good part of them in Donbás, as well as Crimea.
Russian forces control approximately 70 percent of Donetskbut the cities chain in the west of the region remains under Ukrainian control and is a crucial defensive belt, whose delivery would leave the country in an extremely vulnerable situation in the case of a new offensive. In what corresponds to Lugansk, the Russian forces control almost all of the region, except a small portion at its west end.
Las “security guarantees“They were another topic highlighted at the Alaska Summit. In this sense, Trump has informed the European leaders that Putin is, in principle, willing to accept some type of international solution to protect Ukraine against a new Russian offensiveas long as the presence of NATO does not involve.
This scenario coincides with an estimate made this last Friday by Trump, before the Alaska Summit. In comments before the American media during the flight to Anchorage, the US president contemplated the possibility of display of a multinational force “with Europe and other countries” but never “in the form of NATO”, An option that the US president already discarded summary. “There are things that will never happen, but as far as Europe is concerned, that possibility fits,” he concluded.
Trump will transfer all this content to the president of Ukraine, Volodímir Zelenskiin his crucial meeting on Monday at the White House, a meeting for which Trump has extended An invitation, according to sources close to the ‘New York Times’, to several “European leaders”starting with the heads of state and government of the so -called “coalition of willing” to participate in a peace mission for Ukraine, mainly the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, and the British prime minister, Keir Starmer.
Zelenski, who has not formally spoken about this information, nor has the White House, the Kremlin or European diplomacy, European diplomacy, It has always been firmly declared against giving territories to Russia as part of a possible peace agreement.
