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."

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.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has emphasised that Ukraine will not give Russia a second chance to divide its territory and that the war must end with a dignified peace. Source: Zelenskyy's evening address on 9 August Quote: "Everyone can clearly see Putin's tactics.