President Donald Trump announced he will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Aug. 15. This comes as Putin reportedly offered to end the war in exchange for the Donbas region in Eastern Ukraine.

Kurt Volker, the former U.S. ambassador to NATO and the former special representative for Ukraine negotiations, told Newsmax on Friday that Putin “has not suggested any concessions at all.”

“He still wants his absolute maximalist demands of taking over Ukrainian territory, recognizing that as Russian territory, demilitarization of Ukraine, no NATO membership, no EU membership and so forth. So, I applaud President Trump for going the extra mile to try to see whether there’s a possibility of reaching any kind of agreement with Vladimir Putin that would end the war. But so far, Putin has offered nothing,” Volker said during an appearance on “The Record with Greta Van Susteren.”

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