support under incoming President Donald Trump. The U.S. president-elect has pledged to end the war "within 24" hours, sparking concerns he might push Ukraine toward painful concessions.While publicly declaring full support for Ukraine, the idea of ceding territory is quietly gaining more traction among Western officials, even though the details of such an agreement remain unclear, the Washington Post wrote."I think everybody has more or less reached this conclusion. It's hard to say it publicly because it would be a way of saying we are going to reward aggression," Gerard Araud, a former French ambassador to the U.S., told the news outlet.The proposal is being allegedly reframed from "land-for-peace" to "security-for-peace" to stress the necessity for security guarantees that would prevent further Russian aggression.Russia currently occupies roughly one-fifth of Ukraine's territory in the south and the east.Kyiv has repeatedly said that entry to NATO is the most secure way to avert future wars, but the proposal has met cold responses from a number of allies.