US President Donald Trump stated that Ukraine will "have to agree" to painful concessions to end the war sooner or later, Evropeyska Pravda reports.
Trump made these remarks during an exchange with journalists in the Oval Office on the evening of 21 November.
When a reporter asked Trump about reactions to his administration's "peace plan" and quoted Zelenskyy's words about Ukraine risking "losing dignity or a key partner," Trump responded: "Even he (Zelenskyy) doesn't like it?.. He should like it, and if he doesn't like it, then they need to keep fighting, I think so."
The journalist noted that Kyiv fears losing US support if it rejects the "28-point plan."
"At some point you have to agree to something… Recently in the Oval Office I said that 'you have no cards'... I think he should have made a deal a year ago, two years ago. The best deal would have been one where this war never started. That deal could have happened too if we had the right president," Trump added.
The US side gave Ukraine until 27 November to agree to the proposed "peace plan."
On Friday, Zelenskyy addressed the Ukrainian people, stating that Ukraine today faces a difficult choice and risks losing either its dignity or its key partner.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced a meeting of European states on the situation in Ukraine on the sidelines of the G20 summit.
