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Uncle Joe

(63,786 posts)
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 10:47 AM Aug 2025

Ukraine will not cede land, Zelenskiy says, as Trump, Putin plan meeting

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

However, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Ukraine could not violate its constitution on the territorial issues, adding that "Ukrainians will not gift their land to the occupiers."

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In a video address to the nation posted on his Telegram channel on Saturday, Zelenskiy said that any decisions without Ukraine would be decisions against peace.

"They will not achieve anything. These are stillborn decisions. They are unworkable decisions. And we all need real and genuine peace," Zelenskiy said.

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https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/trump-putin-meet-discuss-ukraine-peace-deal-alaska-2025-08-09/

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Ukraine will not cede land, Zelenskiy says, as Trump, Putin plan meeting (Original Post) Uncle Joe Aug 2025 OP
Marty? underpants Aug 2025 #1
I can't place it, Uncle Joe Aug 2025 #2
Ozark. Great TV show. underpants Aug 2025 #3
This is not even a concept for a peace plan..this is a plan for massive land give away to the aggressors Deuxcents Aug 2025 #4
I'm wondering how the Felon thinks he as a say. pandr32 Aug 2025 #5

Deuxcents

(24,956 posts)
4. This is not even a concept for a peace plan..this is a plan for massive land give away to the aggressors
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 11:39 AM
Aug 2025

How can anything be decided without all parties involved and that would not be just Putin n TSF. How arrogant of these two to think they will be the only ones to make this war end peacefully and satisfying to the people who were attacked without provocation.

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