Putin in Trump: “Recognize the occupied territories and I will not claim Odessa”

President Vladimir Putin wants US President Donald Trump to officially recognize all four areas that Moscow is claiming as her own outside Crimea, the Kommersant daily newspaper writes. The Kommersant newspaper, citing anonymous sources attending a private business meeting with Putin yesterday, says the Russian president would want the United States to officially recognize the four areas – Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporiza, Zaporizia and Zaporiza, Zaporizia, Zaporiza, It goes on to the battlefield, does not fully control any of the four areas. In return for recognition and if this could happen “in the near future”, Kommersant writes that Putin would be committed to not claiming the Ukrainian-Limani Odessa and other Ukrainian territories. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, asked about today’s Kommersant newspaper report, said Putin and Trump […]
Source: News Beast

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