Yesterday, President Donald Trump and his counterpart Vladimir Putin met in Anchorage, Alaska, to talk about the end of the war in Ukraine. The meeting took place at about 2:00 pm Colombian time and after a formal handshake the leaders went to a military base roomdecorated with a blue background with the phrase “seeking peace.”
However, during the meeting, which was considered positive, a final agreement was not reached. “We want to end this conflict, today we have reached significant advances“Said the American president, in addition, said that he will make some calls to members of the European Union and especially Zelenski, to comment on the agreements that were carried out.” We did not reach a complete understanding, “he said.
Among the words that President Putin gave, he thanked the kind tone of the conversations. “ANDSpero that today’s negotiations become a key point not only for the Ukrainian conflict, also for relations between Russia and the USA.“, said.
Despite not reaching a clear agreement with the future of the war, the meeting obtained significant advances for this, still have some positions and agreements to be defined to end the war.
One of the most delicate points to be treated by the two leaders was the future of the regions occupied by Russia in the war, including Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporiyia, Jersón and the Crimean Peninsula, which was annexed by Russia in 2014. These territories are part of Putin’s request to negotiate a fire on fire and even end the war in Europe.
However, the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, does not show signs of giving ground; While speculation about Trump and Putin’s positions show an advance in the search for this truce.
Putin has long covered the south and eastern Ukraine, however, his army has failed to occupy him fully. This is why one of the main requests to end the war is that the country led by Zelenski delivers these regions.
These areas for a long time have been considered a strategic point for various sectors such as economics and geopolitics. The regions such as the southeast of Ukraine are known for their great wealth in mineral, agricultural and industrial resources, in addition, it concentrates much of the country’s energy and port infrastructure. This domain would allow Moscow to ensure a land corridor towards the Crimean Peninsula and thus control key ports in the Black Sea, which would increase and strengthen its commercial and military capacity in the world.
The Kremlin has declared that these five occupied regions are part of Russia; Of these, the country led by Putin already fully ranks; Lugansk already has an occupation of 99.5%; In Donetsk it has a power of 76.3%; in the Zaporiyia region it has 73%; And finally, it has an occupation of 70% in Jersón.
This attempt to control all regions has brought with it a number of deaths that can continue to increase every day. According to UN data, Until February 2025, the death of more than 12,600 civilians and more than 29,000 injured have been confirmed, among these victims there are at least 2,400 children. Although more than three years have passed, in Ukraine they continue to wake up with explosion sounds, waiting soon to end these attacks.
The sway of the territories
Vladimir Putin, president of Russia, declared in 2022 that four Ukrainian regions were part of Russia, since Moscow had already taken over Crimea in 2014. However, Three years ago Ukraine recaptured the city of Jersón, the regional capital, but by then Russia had never approached Zaporiyia of which today has 73% occupancy.
The Eastern Province of Donetsk has always been a main objective for the Russian president, but despite military attempts, it has not yet been taken completely, this thanks to counterattacks presented by the Ukrainian forces to avoid that this area can be invaded. Besides, The Russian forces are lately besieging other cities such as Kostiantynivka and Pokrovsk, which have tried to control but still without success.
Despite the partial control of some regions of southeast Ukraine, the country seeks to open the ports of Jersón and Mykolaiv in order to increase the export of goods such as its main agricultural products such as grain. In addition to this, The region is known by cereals such as corn and wheat, metal production, vegetable oils, mainly sunflower and iron minerals, one of the main exports that the country has.
With Putin’s demand to expand its control of the remaining territory, it could also have some inconvenience since, this would mean that kyiv can give up places so thousands of Ukrainian soldiers have died in their attempt to protect cities such as Kramorsk and Slavyanskya fortified line located north and west that protects the Ukrainian territory.
Although for kyiv this would be a defeat, for Moscow the panorama is different despite catastrophic losses that has generated this conflict that began a decade ago, increased in recent years.
