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Trump suggests Ukraine may have to concede territory to Russia to end war

Washington, Nov 9 (UNI) US President Donald Trump has suggested that Ukraine may have to accept territorial changes to secure a peace agreement with Russia, ahead of the resumption of trilateral negotiations involving Moscow, Kyiv and Washington in the UAE on Tuesday and Wednesday.
In an interview with CBS News on Sunday, Trump expressed confidence that the conflict could soon end, pointing to an important meeting scheduled to take place this week.
"I believe that that war is going to end, and it's going to end soon," he said.
"I think we're going to have it done, and I think it's going happen and they're going to end up with a little bit different shape Ukraine," he added, without elaborating.
Asked about his repeated promises during the 2024 presidential campaign to end the long-running war, Trump maintained that the war would never have started had he been president in 2022.
"Zero chance. But it did start. So, I inherited that war," he said.
Trump has previously suggested that Kyiv would have to make territorial concessions, particularly following his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage in August 2025.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, backed by several Western European governments, has consistently rejected surrendering territory despite setbacks on the battlefield and continued Russian long-range missile and drone attacks. His reluctance to accept a settlement on Moscow's terms prompted Trump to suggest last month that Ukraine needed new leadership.
Trump also said he expected to hold his first in-person meeting with Putin since the Anchorage summit at the upcoming APEC leaders' summit in Shenzhen, China, next week. Chinese President Xi Jinping is also expected to participate in discussions involving the leaders.
"We'll be talking a lot of things," Trump said.
However, Kyiv has shown no indication of changing its position ahead of the UAE negotiations. Zelensky aide Sergey Leschenko said last week that the Ukrainian delegation would insist on stopping the fighting along the existing front line without surrendering any Ukrainian territory.
Moscow, meanwhile, has repeatedly rejected a temporary ceasefire that it believes would allow Ukraine to regroup and rearm. Russia maintains that any settlement must address what it describes as the root causes of the conflict and recognise the territorial changes on the ground.
These include Crimea, which joined Russia in 2014, and the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, along with the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, which Moscow incorporated in 2022 following referendums.
Putin said last month that he believed Moscow and Kyiv could reach an agreement, reiterating Russia's willingness to negotiate.
"We do not want to fight with Ukraine. But if the current Ukrainian leadership wants to fight, well, let them fight," he said, adding that Russia would achieve all its objectives in the conflict one way or another.
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