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President Donald Trump supports Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s proposal for Moscow to take full control of the Donbas region and freeze the front lines elsewhere for an agreement with Ukraine, a European diplomat confirmed to Fox News.

Donbas had a pre-war population of around 6.5 million and includes the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.

After meeting with Putin on Friday in Alaska, Trump told European allies that the Russian president reiterated that he wants the key Luhansk and Donetsk regions, but that he appeared open to the possibility of ending the stalemate in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson along with a freeze along the front lines.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has previously rejected the idea of surrendering the territory in the Don

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