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Posted on December 29, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 20, 2026
The Kremlin urges Ukraine to withdraw troops from Donbas, with a Putin-Trump call expected soon. Russia controls significant parts of Ukraine.
MOSCOW, Dec 29 (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Monday that Ukraine should withdraw its troops from the part of Donbas that it still controls, and that a call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump would take place very soon.
Putin and Trump spoke on Sunday ahead of Trump's meeting in Miami with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said a phone call between Putin and Zelenskiy was not currently under discussion.
Russia currently controls a fifth of Ukraine, including Crimea which it annexed in 2014, about 90% of Donbas, 75% of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, and slivers of the Kharkiv, Sumy, Mykolaiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions, according to Russian estimates.
(Reporting by Dmitry Antonov; Writing by Lucy Papachristou; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)
Crimea is a peninsula located on the northern coast of the Black Sea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014, leading to international disputes and sanctions.
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