Here’s what we’re reading today:
#Putin demanded #Ukraine leave swathes of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which #Russia never fully seized, in exchange for pockets of Sumy and Kharkiv.
#Moscow wants sanctions eased, recognition of Crimea as Russian, Ukraine’s #NATO bid dropped.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/outline-emerges-putins-offer-end-his-war-ukraine-2025-08-17/