Putin, Trump and Alaska
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President Donald Trump supports Russian leader Vladimir Putin's proposal for Moscow to take full control of the Donbas and freeze the front lines elsewhere for a deal with Ukraine.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy flies to Washington on Monday under heavy U.S. pressure to agree to a swift end to Russia's war in Ukraine.
Under the proposed Russian deal, Kyiv would fully withdraw from the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions in return for a Russian pledge to freeze the front lines in the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, the sources said.