US President Donald Trump told European leaders on Wednesday, after his special envoy Steve Witkoff met with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, that there was a chance of a ceasefire in Moscow's war against Ukraine, citing sources, Bloomberg reported.
Trump has told European leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Putin could start peace talks"in exchange for discussing a territory swap."
The sources have not provided any explanation as to what this might mean.
The White House host has said he hopes to discuss a ceasefire during a meeting with the Russian dictator.
Such a meeting could take place in the near future, Putin's aide Yuri Ushakov has announced. Trump has also said he could meet with the Kremlin boss as early as next week.
At the same time, Zelensky said that possible meeting formats at the highest level were discussed in a phone call with Trump, and the media reported that Trump was allegedly planning a trilateral meeting.
Meanwhile, the Russian dictator once again announced on Thursday that the"conditions" for meeting with Zelensky had not been met.
Meanwhile, the Polish news website"Onet.pl" claims that it has obtained information about the "advantageous" offer that Witkoff made to Putin in Moscow.
Although the publication does not name the sources that provided this information, it claims that this offer was allegedly coordinated with European leaders.
"We have learned that the Trump administration has made a very advantageous offer to Moscow," Onet.pl writes, noting that the US proposal envisages a ceasefire, but not peace, between Russia and Ukraine; de facto recognition of the territories occupied by Russia, postponing the final resolution of the issue for 49 or 99 years; the lifting of most sanctions imposed on Russia, as well as the resumption of imports of Russian energy resources.
At the same time, the offer does not provide guarantees that NATO expansion, which has so far been requested by Russia, will not continue.
Moscow is also not promised to stop military aid to Ukraine, which the Russians are supposedly willing to agree to.
However, there is currently no indication that Russia is ready to abandon its current absurd territorial demands for the complete takeover of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions, although the invaders have not been able to fully occupy any of them.