Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly told US President Donald Trump he wants full control of the industrial Donbas region in eastern Ukraine in exchange for a peace deal.
The Donbas comprises the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which Russia currently partly occupies – but ceding territory to Russia would be illegal under Ukraine’s constitution.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet with Trump at the Oval Office this week to discuss the peace deal.
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