The US president has called for a ceasefire along the current front lines<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump has said Russia and Ukraine should freeze the current conflict front line in Donbass, noting that Moscow controls nearly all of the region anyway.
\nTrump made the remark after speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone on Thursday and meeting with Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky the next day at the White House.
\n\u201cWe think what they should do is just stop at the lines where they are. The rest is very tough to negotiate,\u201d Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday evening. \u201cThey should stop right now at the battle lines, go home, stop killing people, and be done,\u201d he added.
\nAsked about Donbass, Trump said, \u201cLet it be cut the way it is. I think 78% of the land is already taken by Russia. You leave it the way it is right now. They can negotiate something later on.\u201d<\/p>\n
\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 TRUMP ON THE UKRAINE-RUSSIA WAR: “LET PUTIN KEEP WHAT HE CONQUERED””Let it be cut the way it is. It’s cut up right now. I think 78% of the land is already taken by Russia. They can negotiate something later on down the line.”Source: NewsNation https:\/\/t.co\/gsnhF5yYG2 pic.twitter.com\/CPGj5lEGPx\u2014 Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) October 20, 2025 <\/p>\n
In 2014, the Donbass regions of Donetsk and Lugansk declared independence and voted to break away from Ukraine following the Western-backed coup in Kiev earlier that year.\u00a0Under the\u00a0Minsk Agreements, Kiev was bound to protect the status of Russian language and grant both regions more autonomy. Instead it backed an ethnic\u00a0war in Donbass that,\u00a0according to the International Crisis Group, left 14,000 people dead in eight years.
\nIn September 2022, both regions held referendums to join Russia, which Kiev refuses to recognize.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Trump putting more pressure on Ukraine than Russia \u2013 WSJ<\/p>\n
The chief of Russia\u2019s General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, said in August that Ukrainian troops held around 20% of the Donetsk People\u2019s Republic and less than 1% of the Lugansk People\u2019s Republic.
\nPutin has said that for a ceasefire to work, Ukrainian forces must withdraw from all of Donbass. He also listed recognition of Russia\u2019s new borders as one of the conditions for a lasting peace.
\nZelensky has backed Trump\u2019s call for an immediate ceasefire but refused to hand over any \u201cadditional\u201d territory to Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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