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The US has not revealed particulars of its peace plan, however has urged freezing the entrance line and accepting Russian management of Crimea in change for peace.
Trump was quoted as saying in a TIME journal interview launched Friday that “Crimea will stick with Russia. And Zelensky understands that.”
With Ukraine fearful Trump may drive it to cede Crimea – a strategic Black Sea peninsula seized by Russia in 2014 – Zelensky insisted the territory is “the property of the Ukrainian folks”.
“Our place is unchanged,” he informed reporters in Kyiv. “The structure of Ukraine says that each one the quickly occupied territories … belong to Ukraine.”
Zelensky has nonetheless conceded that Ukraine might need to attempt to return of some land captured by Russia by diplomacy as soon as a ceasefire is in place.
“I agree with President Trump that Ukraine doesn’t have sufficient weapons to regain management of the Crimean peninsula with weapons,” he stated Friday.
Zelensky cited the Russian strike on Kyiv strike, which left no less than 12 lifeless, as one of many causes he may miss Pope Francis’s funeral Saturday.
He may doubtlessly have met Trump for the primary time since their explosive White House confrontation in February.
Simply earlier than Witkoff met Putin, Russia reported that Normal Yaroslav Moskalik, one of many deputy heads of the overall employees, was killed by a bomb in a parked automobile simply outdoors Moscow.
“There are causes to imagine that Ukraine’s particular companies have been concerned within the homicide,” Russia’s overseas ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated in an announcement. Ukraine didn’t instantly remark.
