Trump thinks Zelensky ready to give up Crimea to Russia

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : " Europe has pushed for a bigger role in the Ukraine talks, with French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer joining Trump and Zelensky briefly for the meeting in Saint Peter's Basilica. Rubio meanwhile had a phone call Sunday with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the foreign ministry in Moscow said.
43% : " Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky met briefly at Pope Francis's funeral US Secretary of State Marco Rubio earlier Sunday stressed the importance of the week ahead.
38% : Trump indicated that he would give the process "two weeks.
36% : Trump is returning to Washington, DC, from his residence in Bedminster, New Jersey, after traveling to Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis. US President Donald Trump said he believed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was ready to concede Crimea to Russia as part of any ceasefire deal, as talks on a truce entered what Washington called a critical week on Monday.
33% : "Oh, I think so," Trump told reporters in Bedminster, New Jersey, when asked whether he thought Zelensky was ready to "give up" Crimea -- despite the Ukrainian president repeatedly saying he never would.
33% : But Germany's Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said Sunday that Ukraine should not agree to all the steps reportedly set out in the deal proposed by Trump.
32% : Trump added that during their talks in the Vatican they had "briefly" discussed the fate of the Black Sea peninsula, which Moscow annexed in 2014.
32% : Kyiv and western allies have feared that Trump was pivoting towards Moscow's position.
30% : Russia launched drone and missile attacks the night after the Vatican talks, killing four people in regions across eastern Ukraine and wounding more than a dozen. - 'Stop shooting' - "I want him to stop shooting, sit down, and sign a deal," Trump said Sunday when asked what he wanted from Putin.
19% : Trump also stepped up pressure on Vladimir Putin, saying the Russian president should "stop shooting" and sign an agreement to end the grinding war that started with Moscow's February 2022 invasion.
17% : Russia holds about 20 percent of Ukraine's territory, including Crimea. - 'Territorial concessions' - Donald Trump became more critical of Russia after it launched deadly missile strikes on Ukraine last week

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