Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed to stop his invasion of Ukraine along the current frontline, as part of efforts to reach a peace agreement with U.S. President Donald Trump, the Financial Times reports, citing sources familiar with the matter.

Putin told Steve Whitcoff, Trump’s special envoy, at a meeting earlier this month in St. Petersburg that Russia could abandon its claims to those areas of the four partially occupied Ukrainian provinces still under Kyiv’s control, the newspaper adds, citing three sources.

Whitcoff is set to travel to Russia for talks with Putin later this week, the White House spokesperson Caroline Levitt announced earlier today.

“We hope that we are moving in the right direction” on the Ukraine issue, the spokesperson said, noting that President Trump has expressed his dissatisfaction with both Ukraine and Russia for the lack of progress in his efforts to end the war.