Trump may support Putin’s demand for Ukraine to cede the entire Donbas, - AFP

Trump may support Putin’s demand for Ukraine to cede the entire Donbas, - AFP

Trump is likely to support Putin’s request for Ukraine to concede the entire Donbas, AFP reports, citing an anonymous source. According to the agency, the Russian president at a meeting in Alaska "essentially demanded that Ukraine concede Donbas."

The source claims that Trump conveyed this proposal to Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday, but "the Ukrainian leader refused to give up Donbas" (which was also reported by other Western sources).

According to the AFP’s interlocutor, if the demand is met, "Putin will not continue military actions in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions, which will lead to a kind of freezing of the situation." However, he emphasized that "in reality, this will depend on Putin’s honest word."