Zelenskyy plans to offer Russia direct land swap, refuse from part of Kursk region

17:31, 11.02.2025 1 min read

If U.S. President Donald Trump does manage to get Ukraine and Russia to the negotiating table, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he planned to offer Russia a straight territory exchange, giving up land Kyiv has held in Russia's Kursk region since the launch of a surprise offensive there six months ago.

"We will swap one territory for another. […] I don't know, we will see. But all our territories are important, there is no priority," he said in an interview with The Guardian, explaining that he did not know which part of Russian-occupied land Ukraine would ask for in return