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The Russian ambassador to the United States said that President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin had discussed "concrete proposals" for resolving conflicts in eastern Ukraine during the summit. Helsinki
Anatoly Antonov Putin told Russian diplomats that he was proposing to Trump to hold a referendum in the region, where Russian-backed separatists hold parts of both provinces.
According to the same source, Putin asked the diplomats not to publicly announce a referendum plan. "This has been discussed," said Antonov, obviously thinking of the conflict itself, not about the proposal for a referendum.
He also said that "concrete proposals have been made to solve this problem". but he did not describe them.
Trump wrote on Twitter that he and Putin discussed the situation in Ukraine, but did not mention a potential referendum or gave other details [19659002] More than 10,300 people were killed since April 2014 in a clash between Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed separatists in the eastern regions of Ukraine, Donetsk and Luhansk.
Annexed by the Ukrainian Peninsula of Crimea and the separatists The United States and others impose sanctions on Russia
Russia took the Crimea in March 2014 after sending troops, supported key facilities and a referendum considered illegitimate by at least 100 United Nations States
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