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Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, says his country has no intention of recognizing

Russian control over any part of its territory.

This as President Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin are preparing for a summit without

Zelensky next week.

And Pierce Greg Myrie reports.

President Zelensky made his position clear in a video on social media.

He said, quote, Ukrainians will not gift their land to the occupier.

He added, we will not reward Russia for what it is perpetrated.

President Trump announced to hold a summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin next Friday in Alaska.

Trump is seeking an end to the war in Ukraine and says it could involve, quote, some swapping of territory.

Ukraine is not part of the summit, and Zelensky says no decisions

can be made without his country's full participation. Russian forces control close to 20 percent of

Ukraine's territory in the east and south of the country. Greg Myrie, MPR news, Kiev.

The UN Security Council announced another emergency meeting today to discuss Israel's announcement to take over Gaza after 22 months of fighting.

NPR's Eleanor Beardsley is in Tel Aviv with the latest.

The foreign ministers of Australia, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, and Britain all strongly condemn the Israel's

government's decision to launch a new large-scale military operation. They say it risks violating

international humanitarian law. Germany, one of Israel's staunchest longtime supporters along with the

U.S., obviously due to historical reasons, the Holocaust, said it will stop exporting military equipment to Israel that could be used in the Gaza Strip.

And Israelis I was talking to say that is huge.

And peers Eleanor Beardsley reporting from Tel Aviv.

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