Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky suggested President Donald Trump caught Ukraine off guard with his peace plan including a provision recognizing Crimea as Russian territory. The move would end an 85-year old U.S. policy to not recognize annexed territory as belonging to the aggressor.
Zelensky said the provision appeared after an “appropriate strategy” was proposed during a meeting in London, and that he believes Trump is directly responsible for the addition.
“The United States of America offered its visions. There was a meeting in London, so there was an appropriate strategy that they proposed constructively,” he told reporters. “Our team, the European team, the U.S. representatives, they did discuss it, and some bullet points emerged on paper after the U.S. proposal.”
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“After the United States’s proposal, other
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