Ukraine rejects land forfeit ahead of Trump-Putin talks
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy rejected suggestions that an agreement with Russia could change regions as it was prepared for negotiations with Washington and Moscow.
US President Donald Trump said on Friday, on August 15, he will meet with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Alaska, and that parties, including Zelenskiy, were close to an agreement that could solve a three -and -a -half -year conflict.
The details of the potential agreement have not yet been announced, but Trump said it would include the exchange of “both regions improvement”.
It may require to deliver significant parts of Ukraine’s region – a Kiev and its European allies will only encourage Russian aggression.
Uk The Ukrainians will not give their land to the invader, Z Zelenskiy said at a video address that the borders of Ukraine were fixed in the country’s constitution.
“Nobody will deviate from this.”
US Vice President JD Vance, Trump’s pushing the pushing of peace on Saturday, Ukrainian and European allies in England, will meet with the Downing Street, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’ın Zelenskiy’ın added.
“This would be a vital forum to discuss progress to guarantee a fair and lasting peace.”
Zelenskiy has made a call with Trump’s ambassador Steve Witkoff’s visit to Moscow on Wednesday with Ukraine’s allies and described Trump’s “great progress”.
“In addition to the maximum coordination between us and our partners, open steps are necessary.” He said.
“We value the determination of the war of the United Kingdom, the United States and all our partners to end the war.”
The Ukraine and the European Union pushed back the offers that they saw that Moscow called Putin, which Moscow called Ukraine in February 2022 and called Putin, which he called a threat to Russia’s security.
Kyiv and Western allies say that the occupation is an imperial -style land.
Moscow previously claimed the Crimean Black Sea Peninsula, annexed in 2014, and in 2014, the four Ukrainian regions – Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.
Russian forces do not fully control all regions in four regions.
Russia demands that Ukraine to remove its troops from the sections of the four, which they still control.
Ukraine said that one year after the troops and troops of their troops cross the border to try to win leverage in any negotiation, it was still a small basis in the Kursk region of Russia.
Russia said in April that he had expelled Ukrainian troops from Kursk.
Tatiana Stanovaya, a senior man at the Russian Eurasian Center in Russia, described the current pressure of peace as “first or less realistic initiative to stop the war”.
“At the same time, even if a ceasefire has been reached for a while, I am extremely skeptical about the implementation of agreements. And there is almost no doubt that new commitments may be destructive for Ukraine.”
The violent combat is exacerbated along the East and southern Ukraine, where Russian forces hold around one fifth of the country’s territory, along the facade line of more than 1000 kilometers.
Ukrainian military analysts say that Russian troops are slowly moving to the east of Ukraine, but summer attacks have never been able to achieve a big breakthrough.
51 -year -old Olesia Petritska, “a single soldier will not accept to leave the land, the Ukrainian regions will not accept to remove troops,” he said.
