{"id":54018,"date":"2025-04-24T07:39:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T07:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/trump-slams-zelensky-s-stance-on-crimea-calls-it-harmful-to-peace-talks\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T07:32:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T07:32:24","slug":"trump-slams-zelensky-s-stance-on-crimea-calls-it-harmful-to-peace-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/trump-slams-zelensky-s-stance-on-crimea-calls-it-harmful-to-peace-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump slams Zelensky\u2019s stance on Crimea, calls it harmful to peace talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social that &#8220;Nobody is asking Zelenskyy to recognise Crimea as Russian Territory, but if he wants Crimea, why didn&#8217;t they fight for it eleven years ago when it was handed over to Russia without a shot being fired?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s inflammatory statements like Zelenskyy&#8217;s that make it so difficult to settle this War. He has nothing to boast about,&#8221; wrote Trump, adding that &#8220;The situation for Ukraine is dire &#8211; He can have Peace or he can fight for another three years before losing the whole Country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump also noted that the statement made by Zelensky would do nothing but prolong the &#8220;killing field&#8221; and &#8220;nobody wants that!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are very close to a deal, but the man with &#8216;no cards to play&#8217; should now, finally, get it done,&#8221; he noted.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky said Tuesday that Kiev is prepared to engage in talks in any format once a potential ceasefire with Russia is established, the government-run Ukrinform news agency reported. But he stressed that Ukraine will not legally recognise the occupation of Crimea by Russia as it contradicts the nation&#8217;s Constitution. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-86313 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/trump-and-zelensky-trade-insults-criticism-uum7phe2qffnxnbzrak7jnzaga.jpg\" alt=\"Trump insists that Zelensky&#039;s statement is &quot;very harmful to the peace negotiations with Russia.&quot;\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday slammed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, saying the Ukrainian leader&#8217;s statement on Crimea is &#8220;very harmful to the Peace Negotiations with Russia.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000086312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-54018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000086312,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/trump-and-zelensky-trade-insults-criticism-uum7phe2qffnxnbzrak7jnzaga.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/trump-and-zelensky-trade-insults-criticism-uum7phe2qffnxnbzrak7jnzaga.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/trump-and-zelensky-trade-insults-criticism-uum7phe2qffnxnbzrak7jnzaga.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/trump-and-zelensky-trade-insults-criticism-uum7phe2qffnxnbzrak7jnzaga.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/trump-and-zelensky-trade-insults-criticism-uum7phe2qffnxnbzrak7jnzaga.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/trump-and-zelensky-trade-insults-criticism-uum7phe2qffnxnbzrak7jnzaga.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000086312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54018"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=54018"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=54018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}