US president says cessation of hostilities would involve ‘some swapping of territories’

Donald Trump has said he will meet “very shortly” with Vladimir Putin to discuss the war in Ukraine, and said an end to the three-and-a-half-year war would have to involve “some swapping of territories”.

“I’ll be meeting very shortly with President Putin. It would have been sooner, but I guess there’s security arrangements that unfortunately people have to make,” Trump told reporters at the White House late on Friday.