Zelensky said the provision appeared after an "appropriate strategy" was proposed during a London meeting and that he believes Trump is directly responsible.

Donald Trump says that he can see "success" on a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine with talks going "smoothly" but he has continued to put pressure on Volodymyr Zelensky. The US leader said today that “Crimea will stay with Russia” which was another example of how he is trying to get Ukraine to make concessions to end the war while the country remains under siege.

Ukraine's President Zelensky says Crimea belongs to Ukraine after US President Trump said it will stay with Russia. Crimea is a southern peninsula of Ukraine that was illegally an

U.S. President Donald Trump accused Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky of jeopardizing peace talks to end the war because the European nation would never recognize Russia's occupation of the Crimean Peninsula.

Russia accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday of wrecking diplomacy aimed at reaching a peace deal after he refused this week to agree to recognise Russia's annexation of Crimea.