(UPDATE) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was ready to swap land in negotiations with Russia, which freed at least one American prisoner in what United States President Donald Trump described on Tuesday as a goodwill gesture on ending the war.

Zelenskyy has, in the past, refused to cede any territory after Russia invaded his country in February 2022. But in an interview with The Guardian published on Tuesday, he said Kyiv was ready for serious talks ahead of a Friday meeting at the Munich Security Conference with US Vice President JD Vance, a vocal critic of US military support to Ukraine.