The US president said Zelensky was “calmer” during comments to reporters on Sunday.
When asked if he thought Zelensky was ready to cede control of Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula which was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014, Trump responded: “I think so.”
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has also warned the Trump administration might abandon its attempts to broker a deal if Russia and Ukraine do not make headway.
“Everybody understands that it’s been with them for a long time. It’s been with them long before Trump came along,” he said.
American proposals called for US recognition of Russia’s control over Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula that Moscow seized and annexed in 2014, as well as de facto recognition of Russia’s hold on other parts of Ukraine.
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Read MoreGerman Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said on Sunday that Ukraine should not agree to the American proposal, saying it went too far in ceding swathes of territory in return for a ceasefire.
Waltz also said the United States and Ukraine would eventually reach an agreement over rare earth minerals.
“To just abandon Ukraine, after all the sacrifice that they made, after so much loss of life, and with the rallying of the whole West against Putin, it would just be a moral tragedy,” Schumer said on CNN’s “State of the Union” programme.
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