“Crimea will stay with Russia,” said the president of the United States, Donald Trump, in his last interview, published on Friday, in which he sets another way to try to press Ukraine to make concessions to end the Russian war in his fourth year.
“Zelenskyy understands that,” Trump said, referring to the issue of crime. “And everyone understands that he has been with (Russia) for a long time.”
Trump did Comments during an interview with Time magazineMade on Tuesday, but published on Friday.
Earlier this week, Trump accused Zelenskyy of prolonging the war by resisting negotiations with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
Crimea is a strategic peninsula located throughout the Black Sea in southern Ukraine that was taken unilaterally by Russia in 2014, while the president of the United States, Barack Obama, was in office, years before the great large -scale invasion that began at the beginning of 2022.
Until now, kyiv has rejected any peace agreement that does not include a complete withdrawal of Russia of Crimea.
“The Russian submarines have been there long before the time we have been talking about many years ago. People speak mainly of Russia in Crimea,” Trump said. “But this was given by Obama. This was not given by Trump.”
However, Russia continued his bombing against Ukraine.
A drone hit an apartment building in the city of Pavlohrad, in the southeast of the country, killing three people and hurt another 10, authorities said on Friday.
This attack comes a day later Trump made a rare reprimand for Russian President Vladimir Putin, Tell him to “stop” the air attacks Ukraine after 12 people died in kyiv.
Trump said the attacks were not necessary and criticized his “bad height.”
The Russian forces fired 103 Shahed drones and a deception drones against five Ukrainian regions at night, said the Ukraine Air Force.
The authorities of the regions of Sumy and Kharkiv, in the northeast of the country, reported damage to civil infrastructure, but there were no victims.
The war can approach a crucial moment, while the Trump administration reflects on its options.
High American officials warned that administration could soon give up attempts to stop war if both parties do not reach an agreement.
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Trump’s frustration is growing as his efforts to forge an agreement between Moscow and kyiv have failed to reach an advance.
Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, met with Putin in Moscow on Friday, the second meeting between this month and the fourth since February.
Kremlin released a brief video of Putin and Witkoff greeted. “How are you, Mr. President? You can hear it.” Well, well, thanks, “Putin replied in a rare comment in English while the two squeezed their hands.
ADVERTISINGThe Putin advisor to foreign policy, Yuri Ushakov, and the one sent to international cooperation, Kirill Dmitiev, joined the table for conversations.
