With US and Russian leaders set to meet in Alaska next week, Ukraine’s President Volodomyr Zelenskyy warns deals without his country will not bring peace.President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has ruled out Ukraine ceding land to Russia and demanded his country take part in negotiations in comments made before planned talks between the leaders of Russia and the United States.In a video shared on social media on Saturday, Zelenskyy said Ukraine was ready for “real decisions” that could bring a “dignified peace” but stressed there could be no violation of the constitution on territorial issues.“Ukrainians will not gift their land to the occupier,” he said, warning that “decisions without Ukraine” would not bring peace.“They will not achieve anything. These are stillborn decisions. They are unworkable decisions. And we all need real and genuine peace. Peace that people will respect,” added Zelenskyy, whose country has been fighting off a full-scale Russian invasion since February 2022.His comments came hours after US President Donald Trump said a peace deal would involve “some swapping of territories” as he announced a meeting on Friday with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in the US state of Alaska to discuss the war in Ukraine.Tens of thousands of people have been killed since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, which also forced millions of people t …
