Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy defiantly declared Saturday that his countrymen “won’t give their land to occupiers,” after President Donald Trump instructed {that a} peace deal would come with some “swapping” of territories with Russia.
“The reply to Ukraine’s territorial query is already within the structure of Ukraine,” Zelenskyy mentioned in a message on Telegram early Saturday. “Nobody will and nobody can deviate from it. Ukrainians won’t give their land to the occupier.”
His feedback got here after Trump introduced on Fact Social {that a} long-awaited assembly with Russian President Vladimir Putin had been scheduled for subsequent week in Alaska.
Additional particulars and logistics of the assembly are nonetheless unclear and stay very fluid, together with whether or not Zelenskyy might be concerned. Trump didn’t point out the Ukrainian President within the publish saying the assembly with Putin.
Later Friday, on the White Home, Trump instructed that there have been talks about Russia and Ukraine probably “swapping” territory as a part of a ceasefire deal. “There’ll be some swapping of territories to the betterment of each and … we’ll be speaking about that both later or tomorrow, or no matter.”
A White Home official additionally mentioned Friday that the Russians have supplied a listing of calls for for a possible ceasefire for the conflict in Ukraine, and the U.S. is attempting to get buy-in from Ukrainians and European allies.
However in his message Saturday, Zelenskyy mentioned any determination taken with out Ukraine had been “choices in opposition to peace,” including, “They won’t obtain something.”
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