Before the Anchorage summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the biggest fear for Ukraine was that the American and Russian presidents would emerge brandishing a “peace agreement”. Trump’s pre-summit talk of “land swaps” suggested that America might agree to Ukraine permanently ceding territory to Russia against the backdrop of a resumption of US-Russian business ties.

The Russian president made the demand during Friday's meeting with President Trump in Alaska, according to sources involved in the talks. We speak to Dmitry Polyanskiy, Russia's First Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

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An immediate ceasefire to the war in Ukraine had long been a bedrock demand by the U.S., Ukraine and their European allies.