Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly told Donald Trump in a phone call last week that Ukraine must give up full control of Donetsk, a key region in eastern Ukraine, for the war to end, according to two senior officials familiar with the conversation, The Washington Post reported.

Putin demands control of Donetsk in call with Trump

Trump and Putin are likely to meet for a second time this year. Reports suggest the meeting could take place in Budapest, Hungary, though nothing has been confirmed yet. During the call, Putin said he might give up parts of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, two other regions Russia partly controls, only if he could gain full control of Donetsk, The Washington Post reported. Russia currently controls roughly 20 percent of Ukrainian territory following its full-

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