Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he won’t cede the eastern region of Donbas to Russia and pushed for Kyiv to be included in talks as the US and Russian leaders prepare to meet on Friday.Vladimir Putin is demanding that Ukraine give up the Donetsk and Luhansk regions that together form Donbas as a condition to unlock a ceasefire and enter negotiations over a longer-term peace accord.

Ukraine will not relinquish the eastern part of the country occupied and controlled by Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday. He stressed in a conversation with journalists that the Ukrainians could not and would not give up Donbass,