Trump aide "Ukra should seek peace, not territorial"

A strategist who participated in U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's presidential campaign said the next government will focus on peace, not on restoring Ukraine's territory.

Brian Lanza, a Republican strategist, said in a BBC interview that the Trump administration would demand a realistic peace plan from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, not a victory.

If President Zelensky insists on reclaiming Crimea, which was annexed by Russia a decade ago, that means it is not serious, and he has dismissed it as already over.The word

did not mention the eastern Ukrainian province where Russia has declared annexation in the war.

In response to the remarks, Trump's transition spokesman drew a line that Lanza is not working for the president-elect and does not speak for him.

Dmytro Litvin, an aide to President Zelensky, said Ukraine had already come up with a realistic peace plan for two years, refuting that it was Russian President Putin who wanted a war.

Trump has repeatedly said during the election that the war in Ukraine could be ended in days, but has not said what he will do.