Ahead of a highly anticipated meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump proposed "swapping land" to settle the conflict. But how feasible is such a plan?

Russian troops are steadily gaining ground in Ukraine, albeit at a staggering human cost. Aside from the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow annexed in 2014, Russia occupies large parts of the Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson regions in eastern and southern Ukraine. Kyiv, on the other hand, only holds a sliver of Russia's Kursk region. Additionally, both Kyiv and Moscow face constitutional barriers to potential territorial concessions.

DW breaks down the complexities behind the battlefield and the diplomatic impasse.