What parts of Ukraine does Russia control as Trump suggests a land swap?

The Washington Post ^ | 6:29 AM EDT August 10, 2025 | Niha Masih, Grace Moon

[lodi90]

Putin’s fake and Potemkin war economy relies on aid from Iran and North Korea could be bankrupted easily. Yet still the EU funds Putin’s war machine by choice. That’s not how you win a war obviously.

The Russian army “physically left” Kharkiv and Kherson after being beaten by Ukrainians driving pick up truck technicals. You probably don’t know where that is and when it happened, though. But that’s ok. “hahahahaha”

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Excellent points. Very logical. Too bad that that just proves you are a Russia ‘bot. 🤡

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The difference is that we stopped that in 1945.

So it's OK when you do it.

Check.

[ConservativeMind]

You could have killed the guy for tresspassing.

Why did you let him think it was okay to take it without a fight?

[Dick Vomer]

The Russian army “physically left” Kharkiv and Kherson after being beaten by Ukrainians driving pick up truck technicals. You probably don’t know where that is and when it happened, though. But that’s ok. “hahahahaha”

Whelp, ya got me. It's been 4-5 years now so I guess those 5-600,000 civilians in Kharkiv are home now living in peace. I mean they're a whole 30 km from Russia, so that's plenty of room. Well out of range of Ivan's drones/artillery/missiles and bombs. Probably pretty peaceful now.... now that the Ukrainians have it back.

Kherson, hmmmm I don't know. I'm thinking that it looks like Mykoliav is the key. Because Russia really wants Odessa. They'll try crossing further up the river and try to encircle it but it's going to be a slog doing that. Most of the people in Kherson speak Russian so I'm thinking that Putin might not flatten it out but you never know.

I'm thinking that you think Ukraine is going to "win" this thing?

I'm thinking BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street and the bankers are going to win. They got to "rebuild" and "reinvest" to protect Ukrainian democracy and all those natural resources, biolabs and farmlands.

Call me when the Europeans send bodies into that meat grinder.

[adorno]

You could have killed the guy for tresspassing. Why did you let him think it was okay to take it without a fight?

the Russians trespassed, and the Ukrainians have been killing them in huge numbers. The Russians have not learned their lessons yet and continue dying and trying and dying, etc.

Putin continues the insanity approach. Doing the same thing, over and over again, in the hope of getting a different result. 3 1/2 years of insanity.

Russia is not a good neighbor. ;)

[Georgia Girl 2]

The regions that Russia controls comprise a huge swath of coastline. I think the land swaps that Trump is talking about likely entail Ukraine getting back some of their coastline.