Donald Trump said on Sunday that he never asked the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to cede all of the Donbas region to Russia in an earlier meeting, but that it should stay divided as it is.
'Let it be cut the way it is. It's cut up right now. I think 78% of the land is already taken by Russia,' the US president said in response to a question from a Reuters reporter onboard Air Force One.
Trump had pushed Zelenskyy to give up swaths of territory to Russia during a tense meeting on Friday that left the Ukrainian delegation disappointed, according to two people briefed on the discussion