UNITED States (US) President, Donald Trump, has said he will try to get some territory back for Ukraine during his meeting with Russian President, Vladimir Putin, on Friday, August 5.
“Russia’s occupied a big portion of Ukraine. They occupied prime territory. We’re going to try to get some of that territory back for Ukraine,” he told a news conference.
Trump said the talks in Alaska would be a “feel-out meeting” aimed at urging Putin to end the war, and that there would be “some swapping, changes in land.”
He promised to update European leaders if Putin proposes a “fair deal” during the talks, adding that he would speak to Zelensky first “out of respect.”
“I’ll call him first … I’ll call him after, and I may say, ‘lots of luck, keep fighting,’ or I may say, ‘we can make a deal,” he said.
Trump announced the meeting last Friday, the day of his self-imposed deadline for Russia to agree to a ceasefire or face more US sanctions.
In response to news of the Alaska Summit, Zelensky said any agreements without input from Kyiv will amount to “dead decisions.”
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