President Volodymyr Zelensky has said in an interview that he could trade Ukrainian territory for potential peace talks.
This depends on whether or not the US President Donald Trump succeeds in bringing Vladimir Putin and Ukraine to the table to negotiate.
On 6 August 2024 Ukrainian forces launched an incursion into Russia’s Kursk region and captured a large amount of territory which has seen fierce fighting from Russian and North Korean troops.
President Zelensky said that they continue to hold Putin’s territory which might play “an important part” negotiations.
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Speaking to the Guardian newspaper President Zelensky said, “We will swap one territory for another,” but stopped short of saying which occupied territories.
He added, “I don’t know, we will see. But all our territories are important, there is no priority.”
Speaking to the New York Post President Trump said the US has made “tremendous progress” in talking to Moscow and Kyiv and that a deal could soon be reached.
Trump said in regard to a potential peace deal “I think it’s going to happen.”
The US President told Fox News, “I think we’ve made tremendous progress in the last week. We’re dealing with the Russians. We’re dealing with the Ukrainians. I think there’s going to be something.”
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov has insisted that Ukraine must stop their NATO membership bid and withdraw all troops from their own territories that is occupied by Russia, he then warned Trump relations between Moscow and Washington is “on the brink of collapse.”
