The Guardian - President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said early on Saturday that “Ukrainians will not give their land to occupiers” after Donald Trump said he would meet Vladimir Putin next week and that an end to the war must involve “some swapping of territories”.
The Ukrainian president said Kyiv was ready for real solutions that could bring peace but that any solutions without Ukraine would be against peace. “Any decisions against us, any decisions without Ukraine, are also decisions against peace. They will achieve nothing,” he said, adding that the war “cannot be ended without us, without Ukraine”.
Trump said he planned to meet the Russian president next Friday in Alaska....
The US president also said “there’ll be some swapping of territories to the betterment of both” Ukraine and Russia and that the issue would be discussed soon but he gave no further details.
Bloomberg reported on Friday that the deal could cement some of Putin’s territorial gains in Ukraine, in effect freezing the battle lines in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions. Putin has claimed four Ukrainian regions in their entirety, although much of their territory remains under Ukrainian control.
NBC News - Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy defiantly declared Saturday that his countrymen "will not give their land to occupiers," after President Donald Trump suggested that a peace deal would include some "swapping" of territories with Russia.
"The answer to Ukraine’s territorial question is already in the constitution of Ukraine," Zelenskyy said in a message on Telegram early Saturday. "No one will and no one can deviate from it. Ukrainians will not give their land to the occupier."
It came after Trump publicly floated the idea of Russia and Ukraine "swapping" territory as part of a ceasefire deal. "There'll be some swapping of territories to the betterment of both and ... we’ll be talking about that either later or tomorrow, or whatever," he said.
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