{"id":5375,"date":"2025-10-20T13:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/?p=5375"},"modified":"2025-10-20T18:40:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:40:29","slug":"zelensky-rejects-trump-backed-territory-concession-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/20\/zelensky-rejects-trump-backed-territory-concession-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky rejects Trump-backed territory concession plan"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Ukrainian leader has insisted Kiev\u2019s troops will not leave Russia\u2019s Donbass peacefully<\/strong><\/p>\n Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has ruled out any territorial concessions to Russia, rejecting what the media has described as a compromise proposal backed by US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n Speaking to journalists on Monday, Zelensky reiterated his position, saying Ukrainian troops “will not withdraw from Donbass – period.”<\/em> He repeated his claim on the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, former Ukrainian territories that voted to join Russia in 2022.<\/p>\n Russian President Vladimir Putin recently asserted that Moscow’s troops “are consistently moving forward along virtually the entire front line”<\/em> despite all of NATO backing Ukraine.<\/p>\n Reports over the weekend suggested that Trump, during his meeting with Zelensky on Friday, urged the Ukrainian leader to accept a land swap. The American leader’s message was, “Your country will freeze, and your country will be destroyed”<\/em> unless a peace deal is reached, according to a source quoted by Reuters.<\/p>\n The Financial Times said Trump expressed frustration with the stalemate, tossing aside a map of the front lines and remarking that he was “sick”<\/em> of seeing the same situation persist. Publicly, however, Trump has advocated a freeze in hostilities along the current lines.<\/p>\n