The stakes are high for Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin when the pair meet in Alaska on Friday to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.

The US President and his Russian counterpart will sit down at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in the largest US state – a site chosen due to its close proximity to Russia.

Addressing reporters at the White House last week, Trump suggested an agreement would involve some exchange of land between Ukraine and Russia.

‘There’ll be some swapping of territories to the betterment of both,’ the Republican president said.

But Volodymyr Zelensky has pushed against that, saying Ukrainians ‘will not gift their land to the occupiers’.

In a video address to the nation posted on his Telegram channel on Saturday, the Ukrainian President said any decisions without Ukrain

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