"Is this Russia?": Poroshenko told how Trump asked him whose Crimea

To extend: During his first term, US President Donald Trump asked Petro Poroshenko to tell him to whom the Crimean peninsula owned. Poroshenko told about it in an interview with The New York Times. He noted that the American leader sometimes raises unexpected questions. Yes, at one of the meetings, Trump asked Poroshenko if he could get an honest answer to the question.

After receiving the affirmative, he leaned closer and asked, "Tell, Crimea is Russia?" In response, the Ukrainian politician explained that it was a Ukrainian peninsula occupied by the Russians in 2014. According to Trump, his Russian friend told him that Crimea should be Russian. This is what prompted him to ask this issue to Ukrainian politics. "It's not easy. But now is a time of diplomacy," Poroshenko said about Trump.

Recall that the Strategist of the Republican Party Brian Lanza has previously stated that the Trump administration would focus on peace in Ukraine, not the return of territories. He noted that Zelensky would be asked to present a version of the "realistic vision of peace", noting that "there is no more Crimea.