Russian President Vladimir Putin is pressing a new set of terms for ending the war in Ukraine, demanding that Kyiv surrender all remaining territory in the eastern Donbas, abandon its bid for NATO membership, adopt permanent neutrality and bar any Western troops from its soil, according to three people familiar with high-level Kremlin deliberations cited by Reuters. The proposal was conveyed during a three-hour closed meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in Anchorage, Alaska, last Friday—the first Russia-U.S. summit in more than four years. In exchange, Moscow would freeze current front lines in the southern Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions and relinquish small gains elsewhere, the sources said, softening earlier demands that Ukraine also cede the entire Kherson and Zaporizhzhia provinces. Kyiv has not formally responded. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has repeatedly rejected yielding internationally recognised territory and views NATO accession—enshrined in Ukraine’s constitution—as a critical security guarantee. Russia now occupies roughly one-fifth of Ukraine, including about 88% of Donbas and 73% of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, U.S. estimates show, underscoring the territorial stakes should negotiations advance.