US officers offered Ukraine with an “appropriate strategy” throughout talks in London this week — earlier than Trump switched to request the controversial and constitutionally untenable Crimea recognition plan, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned Thursday.
“The United States of America offered its visions. There was a meeting in London, so there was an appropriate strategy that they proposed constructively,” he informed reporters. “… The relevant points appeared on paper.”
“After the United States’ proposal, other papers appeared, and I believe that today this format, this document is on the president.”
Trump’s plan held that the USA would acknowledge Ukraine’s Crimea and sovereign Russian territory, departing from an 85-year-long coverage of the US not acknowledge annexed territory as belonging to the aggressor.
It additionally demanded that Ukraine acknowledge Crimea as Russian-controlled territory, which is towards the nation’s structure.
Zelensky has beforehand mentioned that recognizing Crimea, annexed by Moscow in 2014, as sovereign Russian land is a purple line for Ukraine.
