Fresh off the high of overseeing a peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan, President Donald Trump is amping up his efforts to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine.

Ahead of a potential meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska next week, Trump announced that the two countries were close to reaching a deal that would involve some “swapping of territories.”

“You’re looking at territory that’s been fought over for three and a half years,” Trump said. “There’ll be some swapping of territories to the betterment of both.”

Trump’s announcement came as a surprise to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who responded in a video posted Saturday morning with an emphatic refusal to cede any Ukrainian territory to Russia.

“The answer to the Ukrainian territorial question is

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