Yesterday President Trump called his European partners after his meeting with Vladimir Putin to relay the contents of their meeting, and the leaks have already started flowing.

This morning Sky News is reporting that Putin wants Ukraine to surrender Donetsk:

Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump that he could relax some territorial gains in Ukraine in exchange for the eastern Donetsk region, the Financial Times reports.

The Russian leader told Trump he could freeze the rest of the frontline if his core demands were met, the FT says, citing four people with direct knowledge of the talks.

In exchange for the Donetsk region, Putin said he would freeze the frontline in the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia and not launch new attacks to take more of the territory.

The move would hand Moscow full control of a territory it has occupied since 2014.

But sources familiar with Zelenskyy’s thinking have said he would not agree to hand over Donetsk, but that he would be open to discussing land with Trump in Washington.

Russia controls about 88% of the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, including all of the Luhansk region and 75% of the Donetsk region.

About 6,600 sq km is still controlled by Ukraine but Russia has been focusing most of its energy along the front in Donetsk, pushing towards the last remaining major cities.

Russian-backed separatists in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions broke away from Ukrainian government control in 2014 and proclaimed themselves independent “people’s republics”.

Putin in 2022 recognised them as independent states just days before the invasion of Ukraine.

This is why Trump said this morning of his meeting with Zelenskyy, “If all works out, we will then schedule a meeting with President Putin.” Meaning it’s not a done deal and that Zelenskyy will have to be persuaded.

The Telegraph posted this map of what Putin is demanding:

We’ll see what happens on Monday…