Donald Trump attacks Ukraine for not recognizing the Russian occupation of the Crimea Peninsula

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President Donald Trump attacked Ukrainian leader Folodimir Zelinski for refusing to recognize the occupation of the Crimea Russia, accusing him of harming peace negotiations with Moscow.

In a publication on the social truth on Wednesday, the US President described the situation for Ukraine as “comfortable”. “He can get peace, or he can fight for another three years before losing the entire country,” Trump He said.

He added: “We are very close to the deal, but the man who has” no cards to play “must finally accomplish it.”

Trump was responding to a note Zelinski In Kiev on Tuesday, when the correspondents told Ukraine “will not recognize the law of the occupation of the Crimea”, the Black Peninsula that Russia annexed in 2014, which is still internationally recognized as Ukrainian lands. “Nothing we are talking about here. This is against our constitution.”

The US President answered that the statement was “very harmful to peace negotiations with Russia,” adding that the Crimea “was lost years ago … and not a discussion point.”

His intervention came days after the United States float a possible solution to war This included Washington, the realization of Russian control of the Crimea, as well as at least the recognition of the control over the Kremlin in parts of four regions in eastern Ukraine – Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporesia and Jeruson – which is carrying.

Financial times said earlier this week that Russian President Vladimir Putin had offered Its invasion of Ukraine stopped In the current confrontation line and told Steve Whitkov, Trump’s private envoy, during a meeting in St. Petersburg this month that Moscow could give up its demands for parts of the four eastern regions that are still under Kiev’s control.

Vice President JD Vance to a warning earlier on Wednesday, saying that the United States had issued a “very clear proposal” to Russia and Ukraine, adding, “It is time for them to either say yes or the United States to stay away from this process.”

“The current lines, somewhere near it, are where you are in the end, I think, you will draw the new lines in the conflict,” Vans told reporters in India. He said that doing this means that Kiev and Moscow are forced to abandon the lands that are currently controlled by each side.

Vans said that there should be “regional bodies,” adding that in order to put an end to the war, the two sides needed to “put out their weapons, to freeze this thing and continue to build Russia better and better Ukraine.”

Trump’s comments and phones came at a time when Witkeov and Foreign Minister Marco Rubio canceled their participation in a meeting in London for foreign ministers and national security consultants in France, the United Kingdom, Germany and the so -called E3 and Ukraine. The American envoy on Ukraine, Keith Keel, attended.

But Rubio-Witkoff No-Show reduced the meeting of the meeting, which some European officials had previously considered confirmation that they had finally obtained a seat at the negotiating table on ending the war in Ukraine.

Since Trump has received a surprise phone call with Putin in February and sent Witkoff to Saudi Arabia to hold direct US talks, European countries were concerned that they were marginalized in searching for a peace deal.

An official in the London said that anxiety is increasing in the United Kingdom, France and Germany about the position of the United States in Ukraine and Trump’s loss of patience with this operation.

They said that the three countries were trying to find a landing zone of a deal that does not see Ukraine forced to violate all its red lines, but it may include some movement by Kiev towards the waiver, as an end point for negotiations.

Zelenskyy has been prepared for some time to live with Russian domination by virtue of the Crimea and the four east in exchange for Western security guarantees.

However, with the support of European capitals, he refused to formally recognize Russian sovereignty over any of the lands, saying that it will reward Moscow’s aggression.

While opinion polls indicate increasing support between the Ukrainians to end a deal to end the war, there is a strong opposition to the officials of Russia to officially.

European governments say that the recognition of Russian sovereignty over the Crimea-the first region in Europe that the military force has seized since 1945-will undermine the international regime based on the bases.

One of the Ukrainian officials said: “If you realize America, this is a reward for Russia for the war and any aggressor will think,” Well, I can try. “Putin will think,” Yes, I was right, war is a good thing. ”