During their meeting at the White House on Friday, Donald Trump urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to accept Russia’s terms for ending the war, warning him that Putin had threatened to “destroy” Ukraine if he did not comply, the Financial Times reported.

During the meeting, Trump insisted on handing over the entire Donbas region to Russiarepeating what Putin had told him during their telephone conversation the previous day, the newspaper reveals, citing well-informed sources on the matter.

Ultimately, the Ukrainian side managed to sway Trump to support freezing the current front lines, according to the FT.

So the American president said after the meeting with the president of Ukraine that the two sides should stop the war on the battle line.

Volodymyr Zelensky described this position as important.

Ukraine’s president arrived at the White House on Friday to repeat a request to send weapons to Ukraine to continue its war against Moscow. but Trump, fresh off the Gaza truce deal, appeared eager to move toward yet another peace deal.

In Thursday’s Trump-Putin phone call, the Russian president offered small front-line areas in the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhia in exchange for much larger areas of Donbas that Russian forces have been unable to capture from Ukrainian forces.

However, Moscow’s new demands are smaller than those it had formulated in 2024 asking Kiev for the entire Donbass, along with Kherson and Zaporizhia.

The White House did not respond to Reuters’ request for comment on the Financial Times report.

The Ukrainian presidency has not yet responded to the question of whether Trump pressured Volodymyr Zelensky to accept Moscow’s terms.

Trump and Putin agreed Thursday to a second summit within the next two weeks, possibly in Budapest.