“We remain committed to the principle that international borders must not be changed by force,” the leaders stressed.
Trump said on Friday that there will be “some swapping of territories” as part of a ceasefire deal between Russia and Ukraine, a proposition that was quickly rejected by Zelenskyy.
Zelenskyy said Kyiv is “ready to work together with President Trump,” but any decisions made without Ukraine are “unworkable,” he added.
Trump is open to holding a trilateral summit in Alaska that would include Zelenskyy, a White House official told reporters on Saturday. But Washington is currently planning a bilateral meeting with Putin at his request, the official added.
Ukraine and its allies have no doubts “about America’s ability to ensure that the war ends,” Zelenskyy said in a separate statement Saturday. “The president of the United States has the leverage and the determination.”
Under the proposal being floated by the Trump administration, the Kremlin would agree to a freeze of the war along the contact line in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, where Russia controls less land than in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, a person familiar with the matter told POLITICO. In return, Moscow would be allowed to keep the Donbas, said the person, granted anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomacy.