In recent weeks, there has been increasing debate about whether Russia's war in Ukraine could be ended at the negotiating table.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban visited Russian President Vladimir Putin on what the former described as a "peace mission." Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently claimed in his regular column for the British Daily Mail tabloid that he had presented former US president and current presidential contender Donald Trump with a "peace plan" that would require Putin to withdraw to "at least" the pre-invasion boundaries of 2022; Russia illegally annexed the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea in 2014 and was already occupying parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine by 2022.

For his part, Trump has claimed on various past occasions, including during recent campaign events, that he would end the war immediately if reelected.

But what came as a surprise to many observers was a comment by Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy might have to consider territorial compromises with Russia.

"The next few months will be very difficult for Volodymyr Zelenskyy," he said in an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere........

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