Putin’s demand in the Alaska negotiations is Ukraine withdrawing all troops from the part of the Donetsk region it still controls. It would mean giving up an area where hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians live & the heavily fortified lines Ukraine has built in the area since 2014. It would make it possible for the Russian Army to by-pass these defensive lines without any suffering any casualties at all, move 85 km to the west and then be put in an excellent position to strike against the Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions through stretches of land that have no built defensive lines at all. Ukraine would also not receive any security guarantees at all as part of the deal, meaning that they would not receive any additional help from Western powers if Russia would decided for any reason to restart the war and start taking new territories again. According to Putin’s plan, Ukraine would have to withdraw troops from the Donetsk region just in exchange for a ceasefire. A final peace plan would first be negotiated by Putin and Trump in stage 2 and it “would be discussed with Zelensky.” Putin is presenting the “Donetsk withdrawal plan” as a “take it or leave it” situation and plans to completely pull out of negotiations if Ukraine doesn’t accept it and will then try to get Trump to agree to placing all the blame for the continued war on Ukraine, hoping that Trump will refuse to send or sell any U.S. weapons to Ukraine for the rest of the war. Wall Street Journal is the sources for the details of Putin’s Alaska Plan.