By Mike Eckel

At a tense White House meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, US President Donald Trump pushed the Ukrainian leader, telling him he would probably have to give up swaths of Ukrainian land to end the war with Russia.

“We think that what they should do is just stop at the lines where they are, the battle lines,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One two days later. “The rest is very tough to negotiate if you’re going to say, ‘You take this, we take that.'”

“Let it be cut the way it is. It’s cut up right now. I think 78 percent of the land is already taken by Russia,” he said on October 19 . “You leave it the way it is right now. They can…negotiate something later on down the line.”

Trump was referring in large part to land in a section of eastern and southeastern Ukr

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