Vladimir Putin is ready to make a massive U-turn and discuss a Ukraine ceasefire deal with US President-Elect Donald Trump, sources claim.
The Russian President is understood to have a list of weighty demands – one of which would be that Kyiv abandon its long-held ambition to join Nato.
Trump, who won a thumping victory in the US election in early November over Democractic rival Kamala Harris, will enter the White House in January.
The Republican has been deeply criticial of President Biden’s handling of the conflict, and has promised to end the fighting “in a day”.
Five sources with knowledge of Kremlin thinking told Reuters Putin is open to discussing a peace deal, in the first detailed reporting of what Putin would accept in any agreement brokered by the US President.
Putin’s troops now control a chunk of Ukraine comparable to the size of the US state of Virginia coming up to three years since Russia’s invasion began in February 2022.
According to the five current and former Russian officials, the Kremlin could broadly agree to freeze the conflict along the front lines.
Three of the people, all of whom requested to remain anonymous, said there could be room for negotiation over how the four eastern regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson would be carved up.
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