Zelensky Bashes Trump’s ‘Primitive’ Plan For Ending War in Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tore into a reported peace proposal from Donald Trump that Ukraine give up territory to Russia in order to end the war.

“If the deal is that we just give up our territories, and that’s the idea behind it, then it’s a very primitive idea,” Zelensky told Axel Springer media outlets. “I don’t need a fantastic idea, I need a real idea, because people’s lives are at stake.”

Trump has privately told associates that he believes he could end the war in Ukraine by convincing Ukrainian officials to cede territory to Moscow, The Washington Post reported. The plan would reportedly include giving Russia the Donbas region as well as Crimea, the peninsula Russia illegally annexed in 2014, over to Russia.

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