Zelensky canceled an interview with ABC after meeting with Trump

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky canceled a scheduled interview with ABC following his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Axios reports this.

Zelensky was expected to appear on the Sunday morning program This Week on ABC, but after some technical issues related to translation, he decided to call off the interview.

According to a source cited by the outlet, the meeting in the Vatican had gone very well for Zelensky, and he did not want to risk undermining it by speaking to the media.

Earlier reports indicated that during their conversation, Trump reaffirmed his intention to recognize Crimea as Russian — though he did not demand the same from Kyiv. According to an Axios source, Zelensky told Trump that he was not afraid to make concessions for the sake of ending the conflict.

Before that, Russian Foreign Ministry representative in Simferopol, Artem Berezovsky, accused Zelensky of continuing to focus on Crimea to maintain international attention on Ukraine. He alleged that while the world is losing interest in the war, Zelensky continues to profit from the deaths of Ukrainians.