U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, after meeting with Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev, proposed to U.S. President Donald Trump to support the transfer of four regions of Ukraine - Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson - to Russia for a faster end to the war. This is reported by Reuters, citing sources, reports UNN.
According to Witkoff, the fastest way to achieve a ceasefire in Ukraine was to support a strategy that would give Russia ownership of the four eastern Ukrainian regions it tried to illegally annex in 2022
The publication notes that Witkoff expressed this thesis earlier in an interview with Tucker Carlson.
U.S. President's Special Representative for Russia and Ukraine Keith Kellogg opposed Witkoff, saying that while Ukraine is willing to negotiate some terms related to "disputed land," it will never unilaterally cede full ownership of territories to Russia.
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The meeting between Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and U.S. President's Special Envoy Stephen Witkoff is still ongoing. After it, a conversation between Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump is possible.