Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected any peace deal that would involve Ukraine ceding territory, setting up a major barrier for President Donald Trump’s peace summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska.

Hopes of a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine are high in Washington, D.C., with Trump announcing on Friday that he would be meeting Putin on U.S. soil to discuss a lasting peace to end fighting over Ukraine.

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Earlier in the day, Trump said that a peace deal could involve the swapping of territories between Russia and Ukraine, a stipulation that Ze

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