Russian President Vladimir Putin does not rule out the possibility of a partial exchange of territories controlled by Moscow as part of an agreement with Ukraine, but he does not give up the Donbass region, the Russian newspaper reports. Kommersantas reported this Friday, December 26th, the Reuters.
In a meeting with businesspeople in the Kremlin, in the early hours of December 24, the Russian leader gave information about a peace plan to end the war and reiterated that he wants all of Donbass, which includes Donetsk and Lugansk. However, outside this region “a partial exchange of territories by Russia is not excluded”wrote Andrei Kolesnikov, the Kremlin correspondent for the Russian daily.
“Vladimir Putin stated that the Russian side is still willing to make the concessions it made in Anchorage [Alasca]. In other words, ‘Donbass is ours'”, the newspaper said.
According to Reuters, which is based on estimates from Moscow, in addition to Crimea, which it annexed in 2014, Russia controls around 90% of Donbass, 75% of the Zaporizhia and Kherson regions, and parts of the Kharkiv, Sumy, Mykolaiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
According to the Kommersant, at the meeting with businesspeople, Putin spoke about the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, located in Zaporizhia, stating that joint Russian-American management was being discussed. The Russian leader, the Russian daily also reports, also revealed US interest in mining cryptocurrencies near the plant.
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