Trump offered Russia and Ukraine to freeze the conflict

Russia and Ukraine should stop at the current front line and "agree on something later." This was stated by US President Donald Trump, Reuters reports.

"78% of the territory has already been taken by Russia, they can agree on something later," Trump said.

Russia opposes freezing the conflict.

"Those who are being presented now as radically changing their position and wanting to stop the war — they still say that "let's have a truce along the line of contact for ten years, then we'll see." These are the same Minsk agreements in a new package. Even worse," said Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

At the same time, Moscow emphasizes that it is ready to negotiate with Kiev.

On the eve of Trump, talking about territorial concessions as part of the settlement of hostilities on In Ukraine, he said that as a result, Russian President Vladimir Putin will be able to "take something away."

"He (Putin) will take something, he has already conquered certain property," the US president said.

The Washington Post wrote that during the last telephone conversation with Trump, the Russian president demanded that the Ukrainian side give up control over the territories of the DPR. In return, according to the newspaper's sources, the Russian side is ready to transfer parts of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions to Ukraine. According to the publication, Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff also insisted on ceding Donbass to Russia at a meeting at the White House.

According to the FT and Reuters, Zelensky was pushed to territorial concessions at the meeting by Trump himself.

Zelensky, in turn, said that Ukraine "will not give anything" to Russia. The Ukrainian president also believes that for a ceasefire and the start of peace talks, it is necessary that the armed forces of both sides remain on the lines they are currently on.