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President Vladimir Putin told some of Russia's top businessmen that he might be open to exchanging some territory controlled by Russian forces in Ukraine, but that he wanted all of Donbas, the Kommersant newspaper reported.
Andrei Kolesnikov, Kremlin correspondent for Kommersant, one of Russia's leading newspapers, said Putin briefed top businessmen on the details of the plan at a late meeting in the Kremlin on December 24.
“ Vladimir Putin asserted that the Russian side is still ready to make the concessions it made in Anchorage. In other words, that ‘Donbas is ours,’ ” Kommersant reported.
Essentially, Putin wants all of Donbas, but outside that area “a partial exchange of territories by the Russian side is not ruled out,” Kolesnikov wrote in the newspaper.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in comments to reporters released by his office on Wednesday, said that Ukrainian and American delegations had moved closer to finalizing a 20-point plan at weekend talks in Miami.
But Zelensky said Ukraine and the United States had not found common ground on demands that Ukraine relinquish the parts of Donbas it still controls or on the future of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is controlled by Russian forces.
US President Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to end the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War II, and his envoy, Steve Witkoff, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, have been negotiating with Russia, Ukraine and European powers.
The full details of the US proposals have not been revealed, although Russian officials have repeatedly referred to unspecified "understandings" reached between Putin and Trump at a summit in Anchorage, Alaska, in August.
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