The White House has held multiple calls in recent days with Ukraine and its European allies to discuss the plan, a White House official said.
The Trump administration is privately gauging European allies’ reactions to a possible ceasefire proposal with Russia after special envoy Steve Witkoff relayed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s demands for a deal, according to a White House official and a European helping facilitate talks with the administration.
Witkoff returned from a meeting with Putin this week and told President Donald Trump that the Russian president had presented the terms under which Russia would agree to stop hostilities in Ukraine, the White House official said.
The official declined to describe Russia’s terms, but Trump said Friday that land swaps between Russia and Ukraine are under discussion.
“It’s complicated,” Trump said Friday in the Oval Office. “There’ll be some swapping of territories to the betterment of both, but we’ll be talking about that either later or tomorrow.”
In the past Putin has made maximalist demands such as controlling territory in areas it did not take militarily, which Ukraine has rejected out of hand.
Despite that, the Trump administration is moving ahead with plans for a summit next Friday in Alaska between Trump and Putin. It would be the first time an American president has met with Putin since Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022.