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Trump blames Zelenskyy for delaying Russia ceasefire, prolonging ‘killing field’

Trump blames Zelenskyy for delaying Russia ceasefire, prolonging ‘killing field’

Global News
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 8:04 PM GMT

'There is nothing to talk about — it is our land, the land of the Ukrainian people,' Zelenskyy said in response to suggestions that he should hand over Crimea to Russia.

U.S. President Donald Trump is blaming Volodymyr Zelenskyy for delaying the possibility of a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia, arguing that the Ukrainian president could end the war if he agreed to formally hand over Crimea to Russia as part of a proposed peace deal.

“Nobody is asking Zelenskyy to recognize Crimea as Russian Territory, but if he wants Crimea, why didn’t they fight for it eleven years ago when it was handed over to Russia without a shot being fired?” the president wrote on Truth Social in a lengthy post on Wednesday.

Russian forces annexed the Crimean peninsula during the Ukrainian revolution in February 2014.

A power vacuum created by the uprising, which came about after former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych failed to sign an agreement aligning Ukraine more closely with the EU — instead choosing to strengthen ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin — provided Russia with the opportunity to seize the area. Within just two months, Putin had declared it Russian territory.

The strategically located region gives Russia access to numerous ocean routes in the southern Atlantic and Indian oceans.

It is also home to valuable energy supplies, including offshore oil and gas stores in the Black Sea; the invasion granted Russia access to some of those vital assets.

Taking control of Crimea was also a political move and an “attempt by Russia to make any western integration with Ukraine much less attractive,” Emily Ferris, a research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, explained in a video on the Imperial War Museum’s website, adding that it was precursor to Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

On Tuesday, Zelenskyy shut down the notion of Ukraine ceding territory to Russia as part of any agreement.

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