Trump claims Zelensky prepared to surrender Crimea to Russia | News | EUROtoday

Donald Trump has claimed that Volodymyr Zelensky is prepared to surrender Crimea to Vladimir Putin after the pair met on the sidelines of Pope Francis’s funeral over the weekend.

Speaking as he arrived at Morristown Airport, New Jersey, on Sunday (27 April), the US president blamed Barack Obama and Joe Biden over Crimea.

Mr Trump additionally added that the Ukrainian president requested him for extra weapons.

Their reunion got here after the explosive Oval Office assembly in February.

A peace deal proposed by the Trump administration consists of recognising Russian authority over Crimea.

Ukrainian officers say they won’t settle for any formal give up of the peninsula, though they anticipate to concede the territory to the Kremlin, at the least briefly.