# President Volodymir Zelensky says Ukraine will not gift their land to occupiers. This comes as US president Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are planning to meet on 15th August for peace talks. Zelensky said in a video address to the nation the two leaders will not achieve anything. He said genuine peace will not be possible without Ukraine being involved. Putin claims four Ukrainian regions – Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson – as well as the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which he annexed in 2014.
Ukraine will not cede land, Zelenskiy says, as Trump, Putin plan meeting