Trump's plan held that the United States would recognize Ukraine's Crimea and sovereign Russian territory, departing from an 85-year-long policy of the US not recognize annexed territory as belonging to the aggressor.

Donald Trump launched a new attack on Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday night, blasting the Ukrainian leader for “inflammatory statements” that he claimed were undermining peace talks – after Zelensky reiterated that he would not recognise Russian control of occupied Ukrainian territories.

U.S. President Donald Trump accused Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky of jeopardizing peace talks to end the war because the European nation would never recognize Russia's occupation of the Crimean Peninsula.