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Mr. Trump said on Friday that he would meet with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Aug. 15 in Alaska to discuss a possible peace deal, with potential land swaps likely on the agenda.
"We're going to get some back, and we're going to get some switched," Mr. Trump said during an event at the White House. "There'll be some swapping of territories to the betterment of both."
Mr. Zelensky's stand reflects a widely held view in Ukraine against surrendering territory to end the war. A recent poll by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology found that a little more than half of Ukrainians believed that "under no circumstances" should the country cede land, "even if this makes the war last longer and threatens the preservation of independence."
