President Trump announced the news on Truth Social hours after meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Alaska.

Trump began to tiptoe away from Putin and toward Zelenskyy in late April after Russia bombarded Kyiv with missiles. The president, however, is also reportedly considering land swaps, including Ukraine areas not currently occupied by the Russians, according to the New York Times, something U.S. allies have opposed in the past.

Praise, positivity and punishment… these three words sum up Donald Trump’s conference call with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders. This phone call came a day ahead of the American president’s high-stakes summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Alaska.

The US president has ruled out any trilateral meeting including Volodymyr Zelenskyy - for now this is a Trump-Putin power play.

Ukrainians will not gift their land to the occupier,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video released Aug. 9.