Zelenskyy draws hard line on land as Trump, Pope weigh in

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00:00A new turn this morning in the push for Ukraine to get on board with a peace deal.

00:07President Zelensky now says Ukraine will present its updated plan to the United States today.

00:13And he's drawing a hard line. No land will be given to Russia.

00:17After a whirlwind tour through London, Rome, and meetings with European leaders,

00:22Zelensky made it clear Ukraine has no legal or moral right to give up territory.

00:27Not Donbass, not any of it.

00:29In a statement on X, he says the revised peace framework is ready for Washington, writing,

00:34together with the American side, we expect to swiftly make the potential steps as doable as possible.

00:40This comes as President Trump ramps up public pressure, again suggesting Ukraine must play ball,

00:46and arguing Zelensky is losing the war after Russia seized large stretches of territory years before Trump returned to office.

00:54Well, he's going to have to get on the ball and start accepting things.

00:58You know, when you're losing, who's losing?

01:01Do you think Ukraine has lost this war?

01:05Well, they've lost territory long before I got here.

01:07They lost a whole strip of seafront, big seafront.

01:11On Tuesday, a rare and striking rebuke from Pope Leo after meeting Zelensky outside Rome.

01:17The Pope condemned Trump's recent remarks in that Politico interview about European leaders being weak

01:24and the president suggesting the U.S. scale back support for Ukraine.

01:28I think, unfortunately, some parts of it that I have seen make a huge change in what was for many, many years

01:40a true alliance between Europe and the United States.

01:44The remarks that are made about Europe, also in interviews recently, I think are trying to break apart

01:52what I think needs to be a very important alliance today and in the future.

01:57Zelensky also met with Italy's Georgia Maloney, who reiterated Europe's support.

02:01As talks with the U.S. remain bogged down over the Trump administration's proposal

02:06that Ukraine surrender Donbass, a demand that Kiev and Europe have flatly rejected.