KYIV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy plans to offer Russia a straight-up land exchange to end its three-year war if United States President Donald Trump manages to bring both countries to the negotiating table.

“We will swap one territory for another,” Zelenskyy said in an interview with the Guardian published Tuesday, saying Kyiv would yield part of the Kursk region it has held since its surprise August incursion into Russia.

As for which Russian-occupied areas Ukraine would demand in return, the Ukraine leader refused to be drawn: “I don’t know, we will see. But all our territories are important, there is no priority.”

"Zelensky makes similar statements in order to hide the true scale of the disaster for the Armed Forces in this direction."

Russian forces occupied an additional 3,600 square kilometers of Ukraine's territory last year and now control about 20 percent of the country. Kyiv's troops, by contrast, control about 500 square kilometers in Russia’s far-west Kursk region.

https://www.politico.eu/article/voloodymyr-zelenskyy-russia-donald-trump-trade-kursk-progress-war-drones/

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