Trump informed European heads of state and government of this, the newspaper reported on Saturday (local time, online), citing two high-ranking European officials.
Putin also demanded that Russian become the official language in Ukraine again.
The Russian delegation had also made both demands during its talks with Ukraine at the beginning of June in Istanbul, Turkey.
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOK), which was once under the control of the Moscow Patriarchate, is at risk of being banned in Ukraine.
The government in Kiev accuses it of collaborating with the war enemy Russia and justifying the Russian attack on Ukraine. The church rejects the accusations.
Kiev demands documents for break with Moscow Patriarchate
The Ukrainian authority responsible for religious communities wants to have the church leadership in Kiev banned from any activity by a court if it does not present documents about its complete break with the Moscow Patriarchate in the near future.
The basis for this is a law passed almost a year ago, according to which religious organisations run from Russia can be banned.
More than three months after the invasion by the Russian army, the UOC broke away from the Moscow Patriarchate at the end of May 2022. It also condemned the justification of the war of aggression by the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Cyril I.
However, the Ukrainian authorities are not accepting its dissociation from the Russian Orthodox Church and are taking massive action against it.
Tough action against the church
According to information from Kiev, courts have so far convicted 31 UOK priests of treason, spying for Russia and inciting hostilities. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revoked the Ukrainian citizenship of the head of the UOC, Metropolitan Onufriy, at the beginning of July.
The reason given was that Onufrij, who was born in Ukraine, had taken Russian citizenship in 2002 and concealed this from the Ukrainian authorities. A number of places of worship have already been taken from the UOK, including part of the famous Cave Monastery in Kiev.
There are two large Orthodox churches in Ukraine: the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the decidedly national Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
The latter essentially emerged from the Kiev Patriarchate, which had already broken with Moscow in the early 1990s.