Zelensky’s softened position comes ahead of Friday’s Trump-Putin peace summit in Alaska
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/08/11/ukraine-prepared-freeze-war-current-frontline-summit/

Ukrainian soldiers fire at Russian strike drones in Dnipropetrovsk, August 10 Credit: AP/Evgeniy Maloletka
Ukraine could agree to stop fighting and cede territory already held by Russia as part of a European-backed plan for peace.
Volodymyr Zelensky told European leaders that they must reject any settlement proposed by Donald Trump in which Ukraine gives up further territory – but that Russia could be allowed to retain some of the land it has taken.
This would mean freezing the front line where it is and handing Russia de facto control of the territory it occupies in Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Crimea.
The softening of the negotiating position comes ahead of crunch talks between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska this Friday.