Ukraine War Talks Stall Over Territory as Trump Pushes Peace Deal

The dispute over Ukraine’s occupied territories stays a sticking level in negotiations between Kiev and Moscow as President Donald Trump tries to finish the battle between the neighbors.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky informed Fox Information’ Bret Baier {that a} peace cope with Moscow could possibly be shut after his Sunday assembly with Trump at Mar-a-Lago.

“Even with one query at this time we have been very shut,” Zelenskyy informed Baier in “Particular Report.” “I feel we’ve got an issue with one query: it is about territories.”

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky each met individually with President Donald Trump. Regardless of a peace deal being shut, territorial disputes stay, Zelenskyy mentioned. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP; Christian Bruna/Getty)

Key points over the territory stay unresolved in the course of the months-long talks. Russian International Minister Sergei Lavrov lately mentioned that the West should acknowledge Russia’s benefit on the battlefield.

Zelensky has been reluctant to cede territory held by Russian forces to Moscow for the reason that battle started in 2022.

Regardless of a peace deal being shut, territorial disputes stay, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned. (Francesco Fotia/Reuters)

Zelensky has urged that Ukraine could solely be open to withdrawing from the Ukrainian provinces of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia, which Russia needs to annex, if Ukrainian voters give their approval in a referendum.

TRUMP PRAISES ‘GREAT PROGRESS,’ BUT SAYS HE WILL MEET PUTIN AND ZELENSKYY ‘ONLY WHEN’ THE PEACE DEAL IS FINAL

President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shake arms at the beginning of a joint information convention after assembly Sunday at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago membership. (AP)

“I feel the compromise, if we create a free financial zone that we’ve got, and we’ve got to return a couple of kilometers, implies that Russia has to take small steps a couple of kilometers again,” Zelenskyy mentioned. “This free financial zone could have particular guidelines. One thing like this referendum is the best way to simply accept it or not.”

Putin doesn’t need peace, Zelensky mentioned, regardless of the rising loss of life toll amongst Russian forces.

“I do not belief Putin. He would not need success for Ukraine,” Zelenskiy mentioned. “I consider he might say phrases like that to President Trump… however that is really not true.”

After his assembly with Trump, Zelenskyy mentioned they reached 90% settlement on a draft 20-point plan, regardless of Moscow displaying no indicators of relenting on its territorial calls for.

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The assembly befell after Trump spoke by telephone with Putin, the place they each agreed {that a} deal needed to be reached to finish Europe’s longest battle in 80 years.

It additionally got here a day after Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital Kiev a day earlier. Moscow additionally claimed that Putin’s house within the Novgorod area was the goal of a Ukrainian drone assault in a single day, which Ukraine denies.