US President Donald Trump at the Oval Office. (AFP)

US President Donald Trump on Friday said Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will “have to like" a US-backed peace plan for Kyiv that requires the country to cede wide swathes of territory captured by Russian forces, saying that he has to accept something.

Speaking at the Oval Office alongside New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, Trump said, “We have a plan. It’s horrible what’s happening. It’s a war that should have never happened. It would have never happened if I was president and it’s a shame and I felt they should have acted quicker. But it’s a cold winter and a lot of the – you talk about utilities – but a lot of the big energy producing plants have been under attack, to put it mildly, to put it nicely."

“He’s going to have t

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