Major questions remain over what both sides might accept after Trump held successive talks with Putin and Zelensky.

Much of the talk between President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, today will center on whether Ukraine is willing to give up land to end the war with Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin has long sought to control the four Ukrainian regions of Luhansk,

Ukraine’s Donbas region, consisting of Donetsk and Luhansk, is at the heart of Moscow’s goals. An industrial powerhouse in the Soviet era, it also has rich farmland, important rivers and a coastline on the Sea of Azov.

President Trump has often said that Ukraine is the apple of Vladimir Putin’s eye. But the most prized territory for the Russian president is the part of eastern Ukraine known as the Donbas. Russian fo