President Vladimir Putin desires United States President Donald Trump to officially acknowledge all 4 Ukrainian areas that Moscow has actually declared as its own in addition to Crimea, Russia’s Kommersant daily reported.
Pointing out unnamed sources who participated in a personal company occasion with Putin on Tuesday, Kommersant stated that Putin desired the United States to officially acknowledge the 4 areas – Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson – as part of Russia together with Crimea, which Moscow took and annexed in 2014.
Russia, though bearing down the battleground, does not completely manage any of the 4 areas.
Trump, Putin did not talk about acknowledgment
In return for acknowledgment, if it occurred “in the future,” Kommersant stated Putin would carry out not to claim the Ukrainian port city of Odesa and other Ukrainian area.
Inquired About the Kommersant report on Wednesday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stated Putin and Trump had actually not talked about the concept on their contact Tuesday.
However he validated, without elaborating, that Putin had actually talked about the dispute in Ukraine at Tuesday’s closed door conference with members of Russia’s company elite.
Peskov did not verify, nevertheless, whether Putin had actually drifted the concept of the United States acknowledging the 4 areas in addition to Crimea at the conference.
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