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Vladimir Putin will meet Donald Trump in Alaska to discuss peace in Ukraine—without Volodymyr Zelensky at the table.America’s president has floated “land swaps”—trading Ukrainian territory for peace. But frontline soldiers have told our Ukraine correspondent, Oliver Carroll, that they will never accept a territorial concession, leaving Mr Zelensky caught between the hardline position of his troops and Washington’s shifting demands https://t.co/c3XGQwvKGZ ...