Trump made the announcement on social media after he said that the parties, including Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, were close to a ceasefire deal that could resolve the three-year conflict.
“There’ll be some swapping of territories to the betterment of both,“ Trump said.
Putin claims four Ukrainian regions – Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson – as well as the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which he annexed in 2014. His forces do not fully control all the territory in the four regions.
But accepting the loss of around a fifth of Ukraine’s territory would be painful and politically challenging for Zelenskiy and his government.
Tyson Barker, the U.S. State Department’s former deputy special representative for Ukraine’s economic recovery, said the peace proposal, as outlined in the Bloomberg report, would be immediately rejected by the Ukrainians.
Under the putative deal, according to Bloomberg, Russia would halt its offensive in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions along current battle lines.
The last time Alaska hosted a high-stakes diplomatic gathering was in March 2021, when senior officials from the administration of Democratic former president Joe Biden met with top Chinese officials in Anchorage.
Since his return to the White House in January, Trump has moved to mend relations with Russia and sought to end the war. In his public comments he has veered between admiration and sharp criticism of Putin.
It was unclear by Friday evening whether those sanctions would take effect or will be delayed or cancelled.
Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff held three hours of talks with Putin in Moscow on Wednesday that both sides described as constructive.
“There are certain signals, and we also have an intuition, that perhaps a freeze in the conflict – I don’t want to say the end, but a freeze in the conflict – is closer than it is further away,“ Tusk told a news conference. “There are hopes for this.”
Tusk also said Zelenskiy was “very cautious but optimistic” and that Ukraine was keen that Poland and other European countries play a role in planning for a ceasefire and an eventual peace settlement. - Reuters
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