April 28, 2025
US President says Zelenskyy may be ready to give up Crimea
US President Donald Trump said he believed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was ready to give up Crimea as part of peace talks with Russia.
“Oh, I think so,” said Trump in response to a question on whether he thought Zelenskyy was ready to “give up” the territory that Russia occupied in 2014.
The statement was in direct contradiction to the Ukrainian leader’s statements on the peninsula.
Trump also said he wanted Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to “stop shooting” and sign a peace deal with Ukraine.
“Well, I want him to stop shooting, sit down, and sign a deal,” Trump said in response to a question on what he wanted from Putin.
Crimea is a strategic peninsula along the Black Sea in southern Ukraine.
It was seized by Russia years before the full-scale invasion that began in 2022.
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