White House prepares for Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska tomorrow

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has adamantly said his country “will not give land to the occupier” ahead of US President Donald Trump’s summit in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

US officials say a plan offered by Putin to halt the war in Ukraine would include significant territorial concessions by Kyiv, according to Western officials briefed on the matter.

Zelensky vowed earlier this week that he would not give eastern Ukrainian land to Moscow, saying that abandoning the Donbas region would open the door for Putin to “start a third war” in Ukraine.

Russia currently controls just over 18% of the country, an effort to expand its territory that started when Putin illegally annexed Crimea in 2014.

Here’s a look at how we reached this point: