US and Russia Plan Ukraine Truce Deal to Cement Putin’s Gains
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Washington and Moscow are understood to be aiming to reach a deal to halt the war in Ukraine that would lock in Russia’s occupation of territory seized during its military invasion.
US and Russian officials are working toward an agreement on territories for a planned summit meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin as early as next week, people familiar said.
Putin is demanding that Ukraine cede its entire eastern Donbas area to Russia as well as Crimea, which his forces illegally annexed in 2014. Any deal on those terms would hand Russia a victory that its army couldn’t achieve militarily since the start of the full-scale invasion.