Why Ukraine can’t accept the peace deal Russia wants

From The Economist.

Vladimir Putin will meet Donald Trump in Alaska to discuss peace in Ukraine—without Volodymyr Zelensky at the table.

Trump has floated “land swaps”—trading Ukrainian territory for peace.

But frontline soldiers have told our Ukraine correspondent, Oliver Carroll, that they will never accept a territorial concession, leaving Zelensky caught between the hardline stance of his troops and Washington’s shifting demands.

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