Putin says Zelenskyy should give up eastern Donbas and keep Western forces out of Ukraine

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Russian President Vladimir Putin is demanding that Ukraine give up all of the eastern Donbas region, renounce ambitions to join NATO, remain neutral and keep Western troops out of the country, according to a close Kremlin source.

This as Finnish President Alexander Stubb compared Putin's territorial demands on Ukraine to a demand for the United States to give up a handful of states in order to achieve peace.

Meanwhile Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia is purposely targeting American investments in his country.

Tracey Furniss reports.

A house on fire in Lviv Ukraine. Firefighters working to extinguish the flames. The result of another Russian rocket and drone attack in the area.

In Lviv alone, 26 residential buildings, a kindergarten and administrative buildings were damaged.

This homeowner said, "At 6.10 a.m. it hit our house. I don't know if it was a shell or a fragment. This local resident said it is the second time it has happened. 

And just a few hundred kilometres away in Mukachevo this factory - one of the biggest American investments in Ukraine - was targeted.

Andy Hunder from the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine said: "This is one of the safest places in Ukraine over the last nearly four years. This has been a really safe place and today overnight we saw Russian missiles directly target American business."

Russia launched 574 strike and decoy drones at Ukraine overnight as well as 40 missiles of various types mainly targeting western regions of the country.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the strikes were targeted. In his nightly address he said, "We believe that it was a targeted strike specifically on American property here in Ukraine, on American investments." He added Moscow has shown no signs of pursuing meaningful negotiations to end the war.

This as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held a ceremony in the capital Pyongyang this week to award state honours to soldiers who returned from combat in Ukraine, fighting alongside Russian forces in the Kursk border region. He also mourned those soldiers who were killed.

Meanwhile Finnish President Alexander Stubb has compared Putin's territorial demands on Ukraine to the U.S. giving up a handful of states.

"For an American audience and having studied in the U.S. for many years, the best way to explain it is that if you take the relative landmass of what Russia wants right now from Ukraine, it would be a little bit like you giving up Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, even Virginia and then bumping into Maryland. So in that sense, we're talking about a substantive amount of territory."