President Donald Trump said in an interview published on Friday that “Crimea will stay with Russia”, the last example of the United States leader presses Ukraine to make concessions to end the war while remains under siege. “Zensky understands that,” Trump said, referring to the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky “and everyone understands that he ladded for a long time.”
The president of the United States made the comments on a Time Interview with the magazine held on Tuesday. Trump has been accusing Zensky or prolonging war by resisting negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “They have had their submarines there for a long time before any period we are talking about, for many years. People speak Russian in Crimea,” Trump said. “But this was given by Obama. This was not given by Trump.”
Crimea is a strategic peninsula along the Black Sea in southern Ukraine. It was resolved by Russia in 2014, while President Barack Obama was in office, years before the large -scale invasion he begged in 2022.
Trump Steve Witkoff’s envoy with Putin in Moscow on Friday, his second meeting this month and fourth since February. The Kremlin released a brief video of Putin and Witkoff greeting. “How are you, Mr. President?” Witkoff could be heard say. “Well, well, thanks,” Putin replied in strange comments in English, while the two set their hands.
The bombing continues
Meanwhile, Russia has continued its bombing. A drone hit an apartment building in a city in southeastern Ukraine, killing three people and wounding another 10, authorities said on Friday, a day after Trump’s leader Russia for a mortal missile and an attack with unmanned planes against kyiv. A 76 -year -old girl and a woman were among the civilians killed in the night strike of Drones in Pavlohrad, in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine, the head of the Regional Administration, Serhii Lysak, wrote on Telegram.
The Russian forces fired 103 Shahed drones and lure in five Ukrainian regions during the night, the Ukraine Air Force reported. The authorities in the regions of the Northeast of Sumy and Jharkiv reported damage to the civil infrastructure but there are no casualties.
Russia hit kyiv in a Thorsday hour bombardment, killing at least 12 people and wounding 87 in her most fatal assault on the Ukrainian capital since July. The attack attracted a rare rebuke of Russian President Vladimir Putin of Trump, who has said that an impulse to end the war is reaching a critical point. “I am not happy with the Russian attacks on kyiv. It is not necessary, and a very bad time. Trump wrote in a publication about his real social platform.” Let’s make the peace agreement! “
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