President Donald Trump said on Monday (August 11) that both Ukraine and Russia would have to give up the territory within the potential peace agreement and added that his upcoming meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin would try water for such an agreement.
The President reiterated that territorial concessions would be part of any settlement.
“There will be some exchanges of land,” Trump said. “I know that through Russia and through interviews with all, the good of Ukraine.”
He acknowledged the Russian occupation of “very first -class territory”, but said that an effort would be made to obtain some of this for Ukraine.
“We will try to get part of this area back,” he added.
“Feel-Out Meeting” with Putin
Trump said his conversations with Putin on Friday (August 15) on Alaska would serve as a preliminary discussion to assess whether Moscow was open to negotiations.
“It’s a meeting,” Trump told reporters in the White House. “Within two minutes I could know if progress is possible.”
The President said he would press Putin to end the war.
“I’m going inside talking to Vladimir Putin and telling him, you have to end this war. You have to end it.”
Possible three -way conversations
Trump also floated the idea of a future meeting that could include Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelena and Putin. He said he would talk to European leaders after Alaska’s interviews and stressed that his goal was a “fast ceasefire” in the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War II.
Long -term coat
Since the beginning of the war in February 2022, Ukraine has been trying to repel Russian forces, while Russia claims to have acted to face security threats from the Kiev Western shift – justification of Ukraine and its allies released as an imperial fallen.
Russia currently holds about 20% of Ukrainian territory, while Ukraine controls a small, if at all, Russian land.
European leaders remain careful that Moscow’s main concessions could undermine Western safety in the long run.
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