Unlike the accusations levelled against Trump there is one fact that predates the 2022 invasion of Ukraine in Febrirary 2023 and that relates to what happened after the coup in 2014. The following areas were never under Central Govenment cnmtrol since 2014:-
- The Crimea
- Parts of the Donesk and Luhanks Oblasts.
Parts of the Kershon and Zaporizia Oblasts were also not under control of the Kiev Government, with conmtrol being exercized by the Governemnt li,ited to in Kershon and Mariopol.
According to Initial comments from EU countries the fact is that the areas never under control the Kiev Gopvernement will not be handed back to Ukraine and the rest of the negotiations relates to conquered areas resulting from the Russan invasion of Ukraine in 2022, The Russians and Ukrainians distrust each other and Trump and the NATO allies will have a dificult task in determine he future border between Ukraine and Russia - but certain geeographcal areas such as rivers can impact on which areas will be under whom.
=Trump is meeting Zelebskyy tomorrow andd by now Trmps advisors would ahve informed their European counterparts about what areas Ukraine should retain and what areas will be regarded as part fof Russia,
The Crimea will never be handed back to Ukraine - it never was internally Governed by the Kiev Govenment from 1991 and any idea that the territory should be regarded as part of Ukraine had near to zero support of the people of the Crimea,