Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine will exchange the territory of Russia's Kursk Oblast currently controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine for Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories during potential negotiations.

After 3 years of brutal fighting in Eastern Europe, many would welcome an end to Russia's full-scale invasion, but a peace deal that would satisfy all remained elusive.

U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth says a return to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders is unrealistic and the Trump administration does not see NATO membership for Kyiv as part of a solution to the war triggered by Russia's invasion.

Zelenskyy told the publication that he was ready to trade land in Russia's Kursk region -- which Ukraine seized in a surprise offensive last year. When asked which Russian-occupied areas Ukraine would demand in return, Zelenskyy said, “We will see”.

"We have not observed them in our part of the front," a spokesperson for the 80th Air Assault Brigade said.

As the Trump administration works toward a halt in the fighting, many experts fear that Ukraine will be forced to accept a ceasefire deal that will only give Russian forces a badly needed breather.

Russia rules out swapping Kursk for peace and calls Ukraine’s proposal impossible as conflict escalates. #RussiaUkraineWar #Kremlin

Amid tensions between NATO allies, with several European members at odds with Washington’s perspective, the Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) released a report on Tuesday warning that Russia could launch a war with “one or more European NATO countries if it perceives NATO as militarily weakened or politically divided”.

On the third anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. position has shifted dramatically now that Donald Trump is back in office.

Russia has rejected trading the Ukrainian territory it occupies for areas in its own western Kursk region held by Kyiv forces, hours after launching a barrage of drones and missiles on the Ukrainian capital that killed one person.

He said he wanted to see US President Donald Trump as a partner to Ukraine, a role more than being just a mediator between Kyiv and Moscow.