Ukraine Prepared To Offer Territory Swap With Russia – Zelensky

Ukraine volition connection to swap territory with Russia successful immoderate imaginable bid negotiations, President Volodymyr Zelensky said successful an interrogation published Tuesday, adding that Europe unsocial would not beryllium capable to enarthrosis Kyiv's warfare effort.

Zelensky volition conscionable U.S. Vice President JD Vance connected Friday astatine the Munich Security Conference, the Ukrainian leader's spokesperson told AFP, arsenic Washington pushes for an extremity to the astir three-year warfare with Russia.

Vance has been a predominant professional of U.S. enactment that has been captious to Ukraine's warfare effort.

"There are voices which accidental that Europe could connection information guarantees without the Americans, and I ever accidental no," Zelensky told the Guardian paper successful an interrogation published connected the U.K. newspaper's website connected Tuesday.

"Security guarantees without America are not existent information guarantees," helium said.

Trump is keen for some sides to scope a deal, the presumption of which are a root of interest successful Ukraine.

Zelensky told the Guardian helium would connection Russian President Vladimir Putin territory that Ukraine seized successful Russia's Kursk portion six months ago.

"We volition swap 1 territory for another," helium said, adding that helium did not cognize which territories helium would inquire for successful return.

"I don't know, we volition see. But each our territories are important, determination is nary priority," helium said.

Russia says it has annexed 5 regions of Ukraine — Crimea successful 2014 and past Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia successful 2022 — though it does not person afloat power implicit them.

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Trump confirmed Monday that helium would soon dispatch his peculiar envoy Keith Kellogg, who is tasked with drafting up a connection to halt the fighting, to Ukraine.

The U.S. president is pressing for a swift extremity to the conflict, portion Zelensky is calling for pugnacious information guarantees from Washington arsenic portion of immoderate deal.

Kyiv fears that immoderate colony that does not see hard subject commitments, specified arsenic NATO rank oregon the deployment of peacekeeping troops, volition let the Kremlin clip to regroup and rearm for a caller attack.

Zelensky has said helium would connection U.S. companies lucrative reconstruction contracts successful a bid to triumph implicit Trump.

"Those who are helping america to prevention Ukraine volition renovate it, with their businesses unneurotic with Ukrainian businesses. All these things we are acceptable to talk astir successful detail," helium told the Guardian.

Ukraine has immoderate of the biggest mineral reserves successful Europe and it is "not successful the interests of the United States" for those to autumn into Russian hands, helium said.

"Valuable earthy resources wherever we tin connection our partners possibilities that didn't beryllium earlier to put successful them. For america it volition make jobs, for American companies it volition make profits," helium added.

The Munich gathering comes with Russia advancing crossed Ukraine's eastbound Donetsk region, wherever implicit the past twelvemonth it has captured respective settlements, astir wholly flattened by months of Russian bombardments.