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Posted on April 22, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 24, 2026
Putin proposes halting the Ukraine invasion along current front lines in peace talks with Trump, potentially relinquishing claims to certain regions.
(Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered to halt his invasion of Ukraine across the current front line as part of efforts to reach a peace deal with U.S. President Donald Trump, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday citing people familiar with the matter.
Putin told Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy, during a meeting in St Petersburg earlier this month that Moscow could relinquish its claims to areas of four partly occupied Ukrainian regions that remain under Kyiv’s control, the report said citing three people familiar with the talks.
(Reporting by Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru; Editing by Chris Reese)
The main topic is Putin's proposal to halt the Ukraine invasion along the current front line as part of peace talks with Trump.
The proposal involves parts of four Ukrainian regions currently under Kyiv's control.
Key figures include Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump, with Steve Witkoff as Trump's envoy.
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