THE GUARDIAN: US president said end to war will involve ‘some swapping of territories’ before announcing meeting
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. He announced the location in a brief post on his Truth Social site.
Russian state media agency Tass confirmed the date and location of the meeting, citing Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov. » | Andrew Roth in Washington | Saturday, August 9, 2025
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