Putin proposes a peace agreement in exchange for staying the territories it occupies in Ukraine, according to the ‘Financial Times’

The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin has offered to stop his invasion of Ukraine in the current line of the front and told Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff, who could give up his territorial demands on areas of four partially occupied Ukrainian regions that remain under Kiev control, as reported he Financial Times (FT) citing three familiar people.

According to the newspaper, Putin would be potentially willing to give in his previous demand for total control over the four first -line Ukrainian regions that does not completely control –donetsk, Lugansk, Jersón and Zaporiyia – if the US makes wider geopolitical concessions to Moscow, such as recognizing its crime control and vetoing the entry of Ukraine into UCRANIA in NATO.

Putin declared the annexation of the four regions in September 2022 and said last year that he would not accept any peace agreement unless kyiv withdraw his front troops and give Moscow the total control of these four territories, including the city of Zaporiyia, that Russian troops have never occupied, the newspaper recalls. The same medium indicates that the proposal is the first formal indication that the Russian leader has given that he could step back in his maximalist demands to end the invasion, but European representatives warn that Putin will probably use the apparent concession as a bait so that Trump accepts his other Russian demands and impose them to Ukraine as a consummate fact.

Military analyst Dara Massicot said that Russia “has no military offensive capacity to occupy the rest” of Zaporiyia and Jersón “without great reconstitution and review of tactics.” “This is no concession or gift when it is the military reality for the Russians,” he said in X.

Several US media have collected in recent days that Washington has raised several proposals to end the war, including Ukrainian resignation to NATO, the US control of the Zaporiyia nuclear power plant, the lifting of sanctions and the recognition by the US of the Crimean Peninsula as Russian territory, as well as freezing the front as part of a peace agreement.

According to the FT, US proposals also include the deployment of a European peace maintenance contingent in Ukraine, as well as an independent military force, not belonging to NATO, to help supervise a high fire along a demilitarized area that covers all of the more than 1,000 kilometers of the front line.

The president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, said Tuesday that his country will not recognize the Russian occupation of Crimea under any circumstance. There is nothing to talk about. This violates our Constitution. This is our territory, the territory of the people of Ukraine, ”he said, and warned that any debate about Crimea runs the risk of bringing negotiations to a framework dictated by the Kremlin.

Zelenski has assured that the information of the “proposals” to Ukraine are not the official position of the United States, ensuring that if there is an “official offer”, her country “will immediately react to it.” Although he has acknowledged that signs about Crimea in the media have emerged, he says he is not sure whether they come from Russia or the US.

It is expected that a Ukrainian delegation meets Wednesday in London with European and American representatives, an encounter that, according to the FT, will not attend the United States emissary, Steve Witkoff, and US secretary of state Marco Rubio, while Keith Kellogg, Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine.

New Witkoff visit to Russia

Meanwhile, Witkoff is expected to visit Russia this week whose authorities will keep consultations about the White House Plan for the arrangement of the Ukraine War. “We are waiting for him,” said Yuri Ushakov, Kremlin International Advisor to local agencies.

The announcement occurred after the US president Donald Trump said he will reveal details of his peace plan “in the next three days.”

Some sources have suggested that, in case of agreement, Europeans could deploy peace forces in Ukraine, something that has always been categorically opposed Moscow.

Witkoff held on April 11 in St. Petersburg a meeting with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, the third in the last three months.

Then, he offered an interview in which he assured that one of the keys to the arrangement is the territorial issue, to which Zelenski replied that kyiv will never recognize the Russian occupation of its territory.

Trump and his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, warned last week that if there were no progress in the coming weeks, the US would consider abandoning negotiations.

In response, Putin declared a 30 -hour Pascual truce on Saturday that Zelenski seconded. Both sides were accused of rapes of the fleeting fire.

Zelenski proposed to extend the cessation of attacks against civil infrastructure for 30 days, offer that Putin promised to study, even at the bilateral level, which triggered speculation about possible direct negotiations between Moscow and kyiv.

In this regard, the spokesman for Kremlin, Dmitri Peskov, has reiterated his usual argument that for such Zelenski conversations, he must cancel his decree to prohibit negotiating with the current Russian president.

For his part, the Ukrainian president has dropped that kyiv is willing to hold direct conversations with Russia after a fire. “We are also willing to record that, after high fire, we are willing to sit in any format,” journalists told a press conference.