US President Donald Trump welcomes Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House in Washington, DC, US, Oct 17, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstUS President Donald Trump welcomes Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House in Washington, DC, US, Oct 17, 2025. Ukraine ultimately managed to swing Trump back to endorsing a freeze of the current front lines, the FT said. The White House did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on the FT report. In Thursday's call with Trump, Putin had offered some small areas of the two southern frontline regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in exchange for the much larger parts of the Donbas now under Ukrainian control, the FT report added.

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