Vladimir Putin is floating what he claims is a peace offer, but it comes with strings so thick they might as well be steel cables. He wants Ukraine to pull its forces out of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts entirely, handing full control of those regions—along with Crimea—to Russia. In return, Moscow says it would stop the fighting. Some reports suggest Russia is also open to freezing the conflict along the current frontlines in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, but details are murky and not consistent across sources.

This proposal was passed to U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and later discussed with President Donald Trump, who plans to meet Putin in Alaska to hammer out more specifics. But the plan doesn’t stop at land grabs—Russia is also reportedly demanding that Ukraine abandon its NATO ambitions, scale

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