President Donald Trump has outlined his peace terms for Ukraine, stating that the country will not be able to reclaim Crimea or join NATO if it wishes to sign a peace deal with Russia.

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In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky “can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight.”

Zelensky is scheduled to meet Trump at the White House later on Monday, along with several European leaders and the NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte. This comes after Trump’s recent summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska.

Trump blamed former President Barack Obama for Ukraine losing Crimea and said there would be “no going into NATO by Ukraine” in any agreement brokered by the U.S. to end the war. He stated, “No getting back Obama given Crimea (12 years ago, without a shot being fired!), and NO GOING INTO NATO BY UKRAINE. Some things never change!!!”

In 2014, Russia annexed Crimea after supporting separatists in Ukraine’s Donbas and Luhansk regions. Moscow’s control over Crimea is not internationally recognized, and Kyiv has vowed to recover the territory.

In a unique start to his ruling against President Donald Trump’s administration on September 30, U.S. District Court Judge William Young included a scanned handwritten note sent to his office. The note read: “Trump has pardons and tanks – what do you have?” At the top of Young’s opinion in AAUP v. Rubio, which ruled that Trump’s effort to deport foreign-born student protesters was unconstitutional.

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Russia then annexed the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions in 2022, months after launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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President Donald Trump greets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House in Washington D.C. in February.

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