The Kremlin said Wednesday that it would not see exchanging occupied territory with Kyiv arsenic portion of immoderate aboriginal woody to extremity the warfare successful Ukraine.
"This is impossible," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters. "Russia has ne'er and volition ne'er sermon the taxable of exchanging its territory."
Peskov vowed that Ukrainian forces holding positions wrong Russia would either beryllium "destroyed" oregon pushed out.
His comments came aft Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky suggested Tuesday that Ukraine-controlled parts of southwestern Russia’s Kursk portion could beryllium exchanged for Russian-occupied territory successful eastbound and confederate Ukraine.
Ukrainian forces launched a cross-border violative into the Kursk portion successful August, seizing power of areas Kyiv hopes could play a relation successful aboriginal negotiations to extremity the war.
Talk of a imaginable solution comes arsenic Ukraine faces expanding battlefield challenges. Kyiv's forces person been losing crushed to better-equipped Russian troops astatine cardinal points on the beforehand line.
Zelensky is scheduled to conscionable U.S. Vice President JD Vance connected Friday connected the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, wherever discussions are expected to absorption connected the war.
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