Russian President Vladimir Putin told Trump administration officials this week that he would halt the war against Ukraine in exchange for Eastern Ukraine, a region known as the Donbas, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

Putin conveyed the proposal to U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow on Wednesday, according to the report.

Further, Putin offered a complete ceasefire if Ukraine agreed to withdraw its military forces from all of the eastern Donetsk region, according to the report. Russia occupies most of Donetsk but Ukraine holds sizable chunks of the territory, the Journal reported.

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