And although Russia does hold some pockets of land in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions, Ukraine is still in control of an estimated 6,600 sq km of Donbas.

Putin has not just laid claim to broad swathes of Ukraine, he has already annexed four regions as well as Crimea, even though many areas are out of his reach.

The UK's defence intelligence update estimated recently that based just on Russia's "incremental battlefield advances so far in 2025" it would take 4.4 more years just to seize the four regions of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.

That alone explains the different perspectives of Trump and Zelensky when it comes to maps showing the 1,200km front line in Ukraine.

"Thank you for the map, by the way, it was great," Zelensky told him despite their differences, "I'm thinking how to take it back."