Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service coming live from London.
This is Owen Bennett-Jones.
There is some confusion today about who's agreed to what in Ukraine.
Following a visit of his envoy, Steve Witkoff, to Moscow,
President Trump said in the White House that in a day or two he would be announcing a deal between Russia and Ukraine that would include territorial swaps.
Well, you're looking at territory that's been... fought over for three and a half years with,
you know, a lot of Russians have died, a lot of Ukrainians have died.
So we're looking at that, but we're actually looking to get some back and some swapping.
It's complicated.
It's actually nothing easy.
It's very complicated.
But we're going to get some back.
We're going to get some switched.
There'll be some swapping of territories to the betterment of both.
Well, that made it sound as if there was a fairly advanced process achieving some shared agreements.
But then the Ukrainians said they hadn't agreed to anything.
And President Zelensky said he had no plans to cede any territory that Russia currently occupies in Ukraine.
Ukrainians will not gift their land to the occupier.
Ukraine is ready for real decisions that can bring peace.
Any decisions that are against us,