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Defined: The land Ukraine may very well be compelled to surrender – and can Russia need to concede something?

By Editorial Board Published August 12, 2025 5 Min Read
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Defined: The land Ukraine may very well be compelled to surrender – and can Russia need to concede something?

Any settlement between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin once they meet on Friday may go away Ukraine in an unattainable place after three years of brutal, grinding struggle for survival.

There was hypothesis the 2 leaders may agree a so-called ‘land for peace’ deal which may see Ukraine instructed to surrender territory in alternate for an finish to the preventing.

That will successfully be an annexation of sovereign Ukrainian territory by Russia by power.

It’s unclear how a lot – if any – direct involvement President Volodymyr Zelenskyy or any Ukrainian consultant shall be permitted to have within the summit.

Russia at the moment occupies round 19% of Ukraine, together with Crimea and the elements of the Donbas area it seized previous to the full-scale invasion in February 2022.

President Trump has mentioned he hopes to get “prime territory” again for Ukraine, although it is unsure what President Putin would conform to.

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Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are set to fulfill in Alaska. Pic: Reuters

A ceasefire alongside the frontline?

The vary of outcomes for the Trump-Putin assembly is broad, with something from no progress to a ceasefire attainable.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, as an illustration, mentioned this week that he has “many fears and a lot of hope” for what may come out of it.

“So far he hasn’t shown any flexibility at all,” he added.

A ceasefire alongside the frontline, with minimal withdrawals on either side, could be “structurally changing” and an “astonishing outcome”, he mentioned.

Nonetheless he doubts it will occur. Mr Clarke mentioned a beneficial end result may very well be the 2 sides agreeing to a ceasefire that might begin in two weeks time (as an illustration) with threats of sanctions from the US if Russia or Ukraine breaks it.

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Will Ukraine be compelled to surrender territory to Russia?

Whereas President Trump’s angle to Ukrainian resistance seems probably extra beneficial from his latest feedback, it is nonetheless attainable that Kyiv may very well be requested to surrender territory as a part of any settlement with Russia.

Moscow has been focussed on 4 oblasts (areas) of Ukraine: Luhansk and Donetsk (the Donbas), Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.

President Putin’s forces management virtually all of Luhansk, however about 30% of the others stay in Ukrainian fingers and are fiercely contested.

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He says it “wouldn’t be surprising” if Russia tried to accumulate the remainder of the Donbas as a part of negotiations – one thing that’s “highly unattractive” for Ukraine that might go away them weak in future.

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This would come with surrendering a few of the ‘fortress belt’ – a community of 4 settlements together with Kramatorsk and Sloviansk – that has held again Russian forces for 11 years.

Michael Clarke mentioned this may nicely fulfill President Putin “for now”, however many consider that he would return for the remainder of Ukraine – probably after President Trump leaves workplace.

It is unclear if President Volodymyr Zelenskyy may settle for such a painful concession – or certainly, survive it politically – or if the broader Ukrainian public would help it in return for a pause within the preventing.

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Would Russia need to return any territory to Ukraine?

The White Home seems to have been briefing that it would, although the state of affairs could be very unclear.

Mr Savill added: “The Ukrainians might want to even up the situation in the north, by removing Russian incursions into Sumy and near Kharkiv, but of greater importance would be getting the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant back under Ukrainian control, given how much it would contribute to Ukrainian power needs.”

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It is also attainable that Russia may very well be prepared to withdraw from the areas of Kherson area that it controls.

It is “plausible” they may get the facility plant again, Mr Clarke mentioned, however Russia would probably insist on sustaining entry to Crimea by land.

This could imply that cities Mariupol and Melitopol – would stay in Russian fingers, with all that that entails for the folks dwelling there.

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