Putin tells Trump that her main requirements to end Ukraine war operations, the report indicates

Russian President Vladimir Putin clearly indicated what he would need to stop military operations in Ukraine when they were expressed with President Donald Trump in Alaska less than a week ago, reports, reports confirmed on Thursday.

No admission of NATO, no Western troops in Ukraine and do not give the Donbas region – a litany of requests that Moscow previously declared, but that he officially informed Washington on Friday, the Kremlin negotiations told Reuters.

The report also said that Putin would agree to freeze the front lines where she is currently in Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia, as well as to abandon a territory he captured in the regions of Kharkiv, Sumy and Dnipropetrovsk.

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Russian President Putin spoke at their joint press conference with the Persédent Donald Trump after their meeting on the war in Ukraine at the American air base in Alaska on August 15, 2025, in Anchorage, Alaska. (Contributor / Getty Images)

Fox News Digital could not verify independently of the negotiations update, although it is an apparent change compared to a demand of 2024 by Putin, who said that kyiv would need to put the four regions that Moscow illegally annexed in 2022, including Donetk and Luhansk – where the Donbas is – as well as Kharkiv and Zaporizhzha.

But the apparent change in Putin’s demand also occurs after Russia’s inability to considerably move the front lines.

After the initial invasion in February 2022, the Russian forces were able to sweep large sections of the territory. But at the end of this year of this year, Ukraine began to launch successful counting offenses where it took up major land games in Kherson and Kharkiv.

But since 2023, the first lines have largely staggered, Russia occupied less than 20% of Ukraine – of which seven percent were already taken in 2014, when Russia fully occupied Crimea and certain parts of the Donbas.

Russian forces currently occupy about 88% of donbas, almost the entire Luhansk region and around 75% Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.

The territory under Russian control in Sumy and Kharkiv is equivalent to approximately 150 square kilometers combined and a fraction of this in Dnipropetrovsk.

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Infographic map of Ukraine showing territories claimed by Russia – Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Crimea (annexed in 2014) – as well as Russian advances, using data from the Institute for the Study of War and the Critical Threats of Aei, August 17, 2025. (Guillermo Rivas Pacheco, Jean-Michel Cornu / AFP via Getty Images)

A senior NATO defense official pointed out that Putin’s list of wishes was not unexpected and expressed a hint that he could add to his list of requests in the future.

“Everything that helps stall,” said the official, who spoke to Fox News Digital on condition of anonymity.

Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov, raised geopolitical eyebrows this week when he stated in a television interview that Moscow “never talked about the need to grasp territories”.

Instead, his comments have shown concern that Putin’s ultimate objective is kyiv’s control, rather than the physical occupation of all of Ukraine – which the Russian forces could not achieve.

Lavrov said that the Kremlin’s objective was to “protect” the Ukrainians from their own government, and argued “that there can be no discussion on long -term agreements” with kyiv “without respect” for Russia security and Russian rights in Ukraine, the Institute for War Study reported this week.

“These are the reasons that must be eliminated urgently in the context of a regulation,” added Lavrov.

US President Donald Trump (R) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) hold a meeting with Elmendorf-Richardson Base Base on August 15, 2025 in Anchorage, Alaska. (Images Andrew Harnik / Getty)

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The concerns about the sovereignty and autonomy of Ukraine were increasing well before the invasion of Russia in 2022, in particular following the outbreak of massive demonstrations in the Bélarus after the alleged re -election in 2020 of President Alexander Lukashenko, an important ally of Putin and which essentially extended the Belarus as a state of music to Russia.

The discomfort rose in 2021 when Putin wrote an essay arguing that Ukraine, as well as Belarus, should not exist independently of Russia. At the end of the year, security experts sounded the alarm that Putin intended to invade Ukraine.

The White House did not immediately answer questions from Fox News Digital.