US President Donald Trump is blamed Volodymyr Zelenskyy To delay the possibility of ceasefire between Ukraine And Russiaarguing that the Ukrainian president could end the war if he agreed to officially hand over Crimea to Russia as part of a proposed peace agreement.
“No one asks Zelenskyy to recognize Crimea As a Russian territory, but if he wants to be Crimea, why did they not fight for that eleven years ago when he was handed over to Russia without having been drawn? The president wrote on Truth Social in a long post Wednesday.
Donald Trump said in a social position on Wednesday, April 23, that Volodymyr Zelenskyy should hand over the Crimea in Russia to conclude a cease-fire contract.
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The Russian forces annexed the Crimean Peninsula during the Ukrainian Revolution in February 2014.
A vacuum cleaner created by the uprising, which was born after the former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych did not sign an agreement aligning Ukraine more closely with the EU – instead of choosing to strengthen the links with Russian President Vladimir Putin – gave Russia the opportunity to seize the region. In just two months, Putin declared it Russian territory.
The strategically located region gives Russia access to many ocean roads in the South Atlantic and the Indian oceans.
It also houses valuable energy supplies, including oil and offshore gas stores in the Black Sea; The invasion gave access to Russia to some of these vital assets.
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Taking control of Crimea was also a political decision and an “attempt by Russia to make any Western integration with Ukraine much less attractive,” said Emily Ferris, researcher at the Royal United Services Institute, in a Video on the Imperial War Museum websiteAdding that it was a precursor to the large -scale invasion of Ukraine Putin in 2022.
Tuesday, Zelenskyy closed the concept of Ukraine yielding the territory to Russia as part of any agreement.
“There is nothing to say – it is our land, the land of the Ukrainian people,” said Zelenskyy. He doubled on Wednesday, saying to the media: “Stoping murder is the number one task.”
His initial refutation occurred one day before high -level talks took place in London on Wednesday between US, Europeans and Ukrainian officials were demoted after the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the special envoy Steve Witkoff withdrew.
Trump’s Ukrainian envoy Keith Kellogg is at London talks in place of Rubio and Witkoff.
The US State Department blamed the last -minute cancellation on logistical complications, but it was clear that the decision made the British Foreign Affairs to the Dusted, the BBC reported.
The American diplomats rather turned their attention to Moscow, where Witkoff is ready to Meet Putin for the fourth timeas a feeling of urgency to put an end to the war frames.
On Wednesday afternoon, US vice-president JD Vance, addressing the Tarmac at the Tarmac of an airport in AGRA, India, told journalists that if Ukraine and Russia had not accepted a cease-fire contract, his country would be back to peace talks.
“We have issued a very explicit proposal to the Russians and the Ukrainians, and it is time for them to say” yes “or for the United States to move away from this process,” said Vance.
“We have embarked on an extraordinary quantity of diplomacy,” he said, explaining that for an agreement to be concluded, Russia and Ukraine should probably abandon a territory.
Vice-President JD Vance speaks to the media as he leaves AGRA, in India, en route to Jaipur, India, after visiting the Taj Mahal on April 23, 2025.
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During Similar discussions last week in ParisAccording to a European official, according to a European official, according to a European official, presented a proposal which included Russia to keep control of the Ukrainian territory occupied within the framework of an agreement.
Peace talks are underway.
– with files from the Associated Press
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