Touching on Ukrainian anxieties that a direct meeting between Mr. Trump and Putin could marginalize Kyiv and European interests, Zelenskyy said: "Any decisions that are without Ukraine are at the same time decisions against peace. They will not bring anything. These are dead decisions. They will never work."

Ahead of a meeting between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova said she is "hopeful" about Mr. Trump's latest push for a ceasefire deal — and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is "ready to be anywhere" if the U.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy defiantly declared Saturday that his countrymen “will not give their land to occupiers,” after President Donald Trump suggested that a peace deal would include some “swapping” of territories with Russia.