Trump said this during a press conference at the White House.Trump stated that his meeting with Putin would be preliminary. He will tell the Kremlin leader that the war needs to be brought to an end.“He won’t mess with me,” the U.S. president said.Trump noted that he wants to discuss with Putin possible terms of a peace agreement.“I was a little bothered by the fact that Zelenskyy said he has to have constitutional approval… I mean, he has got an approval to go into a war and to kill everybody, but he needs an approval to do a land swap. There will be some land swapping going on. I know this from Russia and conversations with everybody,” Trump said.At the same time, the U.S. leader pointed out that Russia has occupied a significant amount of important Ukrainian territory. According to Trump, he will try to return part of these territories. However, he noted that he will not be the one to conclude an agreement.“It is not up ti me to make a deal. I think the deal should be made for both sides,” the U.S. president said.He added that he would like both Putin and Zelenskyy to be present at the next meeting, either in a bilateral format, or in a trilateral one with his participation.“Ultimately, I’m going to put them both in the same room. I’ll be there, or I won’t, and I think the issue will be resolved,” he said.Before this, Trump misspoke that he would meet with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin in Russia.“I’m going to meet with Putin, I’m going to Russia on Friday,” he said.Later, during the same press conference, he corrected his statement, saying that “the leader of Russia will come to our country, not that we are going to his country.”BackgroundU.S. President Donald Trump had earlier stated that he would hold a meeting with the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in the state of Alaska on August 15.Touching on what he would discuss with Putin regarding conditions for ending Russia’s war against Ukraine, Trump had previously floated the topic of “some swap of territories.”Diplomatic consultations between Ukraine and the United States on the eve of the summit have in effect been continuing around the clock. Meanwhile, the NYT writes that the U.S. Secret Service booked a six-room house in Anchorage, where the meeting between Trump and Putin will likely take place.Republican Senator Lindsey Graham stated that Ukraine and Russia will have to exchange some territories after Kyiv receives security guarantees.It later became known that European leaders and the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy will hold a phone call with Trump before his meeting with the Russian dictator Putin.