It comes after US President Donald Trump spoke to both the Ukrainian and Russian leaders, and suggested negotiations to end the war would follow.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky floated the possibility of exchanging its seized territories in Russia’s Kursk region for territorial concessions from the Kremlin.

It comes after Zelensky said Ukraine would not accept any deal brokered between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin without Kyiv's involvement.

Russia has rejected trading the Ukrainian territory it occupies for areas in its own western Kursk region held by Kyiv forces, hours after launching a barrage of drones and missiles on the Ukrainian capital that killed one person.

Russia said Thursday that the United States will be its “main counterpart” in forthcoming peace talks to end its invasion of Ukraine, sidelining Kyiv in the negotiations. “We, of course,

President Volodymyr Zelensky said he planned to exchange territories if U.S. President Donald Trump succeeds in bringing Ukraine and Russia to the negotiating table, according to an interview with The Guardian published on Feb.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is proposing an exchange of seized territory with Russia as part of any potential negotiations to end the war. Ukraine holds control of a small pocket of Russian territory,

We will exchange one territory for another,” the president said. He added that Ukraine has not yet decided which part of the Russian-occupied territories it would seek in return. Read also: Ukrainian paratroopers seize new positions in Kursk Oblast — video “I don’t know,