European nations are working with Ukraine on a 12-point proposal to end Russia's war along current battle lines, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited to ask President Trump for more military aid as the war with Russia persists.

But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday dismissed the idea of halting the conflict at the current contact line. Moscow was only interested in "long-term, sustainable peace", Lavrov said, implying that freezing the front line would only amount to a temporary ceasefire.

The president suggested Ukraine would need to cede territory in the Donbas region as part of his proposed ceasefire deal with Russia.

President Donald Trump told reporters on Sunday thatthe Donbas region of Ukraine should be “cut up," leaving most of it in Russian hands, to end the war.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said U.S. President Donald Trump reneged on the possibility of sending the long-range missiles to Ukraine, which would have been a major boost for Kyiv.

Former Soviet Union expert Dr. Ronald Suny, and Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and Emeritus Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago,

Russia continued to strike other parts of Ukraine closer to the front line. In the Dnipropetrovsk region, at least 11 people were injured after Russian drones hit the Shakhtarske area. At least 14 five-story buildings and a store were damaged, said acting regional Gov. Vladyslav Haivanenko.