Zelensky offers land swaps as Russia heartens Trump with prisoner release

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Ukrainian President Wolodmeer Zelannsky said he was ready to change the land in talks with Russia, which freed at least one American prisoner in which US President Donald Trump ended the war on Tuesday. Described as a signal of goodwill.

Zelannski has refused to stop any area after Russia’s attack on Ukraine in February 2022.

But in an interview to the Guardian published on Tuesday, he said that Kiev was ready for serious talks with US Vice President JD Venus at the Munich Security Conference on Friday.

“We will change one area to another,” he said, adding that he is ready to trade land in Russia’s region.

He acknowledged that Ukraine could not only enjoy security guarantees with European partners.

“Without the United States, security guarantees are not a guarantee of real security,” he said.

Taking advantage of billions of dollars in US aid sent under former President Joe Biden, Trump took power, pledging to end the war in Ukraine, to force Kiev to force regional privileges.

Since returning to the White House last month, in the first well -known visit of a Trump administration member in Russia, Enlichi Stevetkov has received the release of Marc Fogle in an American prison since 2021 on drug charges.

“Russia was treated very well by Russia,” Trump told reporters of Fogle’s release. “

“In fact, I hope this is the beginning of a relationship where we can end this war.”

Trump saluted Fogle at the White House on Tuesday night when he returned to the United States, and heard a meeting with Fogle’s 95 -year -old mother at a rally where he promised to “get out”.

The White House described his release as part of “exchange”, Trump said on Tuesday night that the second detention would be released on Wednesday without further details.

There was no immediate comment by Russia, where official -run news agencies cited the White House announcement.

In December, the Russian Supreme Court refused to consider Fogle’s appeal against its 14 -year sentence.

Watkov, a property developer and a friend of Trump, is officially the Middle East envoy, and earlier played a key role in advancing Israel’s delicate hamma fire.

Trump also announced a visit to Ukraine through Treasury Secretary Scott Basant – another official in his cabinet on his mission -related mission.

‘Russian Day’

Earlier in the week, Trump made the possibility that Ukraine “could be Russian someday,” the words Moscow immediately welcomed.

“The fact is that Ukraine wants to become Russia, and already is a reality,” said Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin.

Ukrainian residents have expressed sarcasm over Trump’s remarks.

“This is a serious madness,” Kiev’s resident Daniel told AFP.

On a Central Kiev road, a Ukrainian soldier, who just named Micola, said of Trump: “He can think anything and say anything, but Ukraine will never be Russia.”

In the past, Trump has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and has supported the US intelligence community’s denial of Russian intervention on Russian interference in the Republican’s 2016 election victory.

But he has also demanded a compromise from Russia in recent weeks, saying that Putin needs to reduce heavy losses.

Both troops are trying to take advantage of the battlefield ahead of possible talks.

The Russian Ministry of Defense said Tuesday that its troops had occupied a small village in Yasino in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine.

The city’s mayor Vatley Clatco said on the telegram, and the Russian missile strike on Kiev killed at least one person on Wednesday.

A 40 -year -old man and a 30 -year -old woman were killed in a Russian bombing in the northern Sami region of Ukraine, a regional prosecutor said.

The latest release of the prisoner

Biden stopped most of Moscow after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.

But intelligence chiefs and others still met quietly in third countries and discussed the conversion, which, Russia’s most prominent Americans – basketball player Britney Granner, journalist Ivan Grushkoch and former Marine Paul liberated Wellen.

Fogle, 63, was teaching at the Anglo -American School in Moscow when he allegedly found 21 grams of cannabis and cannabis oil at Moscow Airport.

Foole has been living in Russia since 2012. It is said that he was teaching English to the Russians in his pineapple colony.