Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly made ownership of the contested Donbas region of eastern Ukraine the price for a peace agreement to end the war.

According to multiple media reports, during his Alaska meeting with President Donald Trump, Putin is said to have relayed that Moscow would be willing to end the war if Kyiv relinquishes the Eastern territory comprised of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.

The Russian leader also reportedly offered to freeze the current battle lines in the other Ukrainian provinces of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.

In exchange, according to the New York Times , Putin offered to pen a written pledge never to attack Ukraine or any other country in Europe.

Although Russia currently controls the vast majority of the Donbas region, Ukrainian forces ha

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