
US President Donald Trump has said he believes his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy is ready to cede the occupied Crimea to Russia, a notion that the Ukrainian government has long refused to entertain.
At an informal press conference at a New Jersey airport on Sunday, Trump was asked directly if the Ukrainian president was ready to give up the peninsula, which Russia first seized in 2014 in what has long been internationally condemned as an illegal invasion.