President Volodymyr Zelensky says it’s "all about the land" as Ukraine, Russia and the US hold their first trilateral talks since the start of the war.
Vladimir Putin has demanded control of the Donbas region as a condition of a peace, but giving away territory is a red line for Kyiv.
So, is there any hope of getting past this stalemate? Can President Donald Trump’s negotiating team curb the Kremlin’s land-grabbing objectives? And what do the Ukrainian people make of all this, as they face air strikes and power outages, amid freezing temperatures?
The BBC’s correspondent Wyre Davies spoke to us while on the road in Eastern Europe.
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