European leaders urged more "pressure" on Russia overnight Saturday, after the announcement of a Trump-Putin summit to end the war in Ukraine raised concern that an agreement would require Kyiv to cede swathes of territory.
Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump will meet in the US state of Alaska this Friday to try to resolve the three-year conflict, despite warnings from Ukraine and Europe that Kyiv must be part of negotiations.
Announcing the summit last week, Trump said that "there'll be some swapping of territories to the betterment of both" sides, without elaborating.
But President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Saturday that Ukraine won't surrender land to Russia to buy peace.
"Ukrainians will not give their land to the occupier," he said on social media.
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