Putin tells Trump his most important demands to put an end to the Ukrainian war activities, says Report says

Russian President Vladimir Putin made clear his demands about what would be for him to stop military operations in Ukraine when he spoke with President Donald Trump in Alaska less than a week ago, reports confirmed on Thursday.

The demands of Moscow – no NATO membership for Ukraine, no Western troops on its soil and surrender of the Donbas region – were formally delivered to Washington on Friday, according to sources that are familiar with the negotiations of the Kremlin, Reuters reported.

The report also claimed that Putin would agree to freeze the front lines where it is currently in Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia and what territory has informed that it has recorded in the Kharkiv, Sumy and Dnipropetrovsk regions.

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But Putin’s apparent change in demand comes even after years of inability of Russia to consider the front lines considerably.

After the first invasion in February 2022, Russian troops were able to sweep large parts of the territory. But against the late summer of that year, Ukraine began to launch successful counter -institutions where the considerable parts of the country in Kherson and Kharkiv recaptured.

But since 2023, the front lines have remained largely stagnant, with Russia reporting less than 20% of Ukraine occupied – an estimated 7% of that was taken earlier in 2014, when Russia fully occupied the Crimea and parts of the Donbas.

Russian troops occupy around 88% of the Donbas, almost all Luhansk region and around 75% of Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.

From Russian controlled area in Sumy and Kharkiv is estimated at around 150 square miles combined, and a fraction of this in dnipropetrovsk.

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A map of Ukraine with areas of Russia – Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and De Krim (attached in 2014) – plus Russian claims, using data from the Institute for the study of War and Aei’s Critical threats project, from 17 August, 2025. (Guillermo Rivas Pacheco, Jean-Michel Cornu/AFP via Getty images)

A Senior NATO defense officer pointed out that the Putin wish list was not unexpected and suggested that he could add requirements to his list of requirements in the future.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov raised geopolitical eyebrows this week when he claimed in an interview on television that Moscow “never spoke about the need to grasp areas.”

Instead, his comments escalated the concern that Putin’s ultimate war goal is the control of Kiev, instead of physical occupation of all of Ukraine, which Russian troops have not been able to reach.

Lavrov said that the goal of the Kremlin is to “protect” Ukrainians against their own government and argued “that there can be no question of any long -term agreements” with Kiev “Without Respect” for the safety of Russia and the rights of Russian speakers in Ukrainian, the Institute for the study of War reported this week.

“These are the reasons that urgently need to be eliminated in the context of a scheme,” Lavrov added.

US President Donald Trump, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, hold a meeting on a joint base Elmendorf-Richardson 15 August 2025 in Anchorage, Alaska. (Andrew Harnik/Getty images)

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Concern about the sovereignty and autonomy of Ukraine was already far before the Russian invasion in 2022, especially after the outbreak of massive protests in Belarus after the alleged re-election of 2020 by President Alexander Lukashenko, an important ally of Putin who essentially has Belarus.

Unsudining was set up in 2021 when Putin wrote an essay with the argument that Ukraine, as well as white -Russia, should not exist independently of Russia. Towards the end of the year, security experts sounded the alarm that Putin intended to invade Ukraine.