From the Daily Beast / Yahoo!News:
"Trump Made a Bonkers Request to Ukraine as It Battled Russia
President Donald Trump reportedly asked several foreign governments if they would accept U.S. deportees who are not their citizens—including war-torn Ukraine.
Documents obtained by The Washington Post revealed that the Trump administration asked Kyiv in late January to take in third-country nationals deported by the U.S., all while Ukraine was fending off Russia’s attacks.
A Ukrainian diplomat told American counterparts that while Ukraine had a “solid track record of accepting the return of its citizens when removed by the United States,” it was dealing with “wartime exigencies,” the Post reported Tuesday...
The proposal to Ukraine, relayed by a senior U.S. diplomat, was reportedly one of many that the Trump administration sent to multiple countries around the same time. Former U.S. officials told the Post that the proposal was unusual and outside of routine diplomatic correspondence.
A Ukrainian diplomat reportedly told the U.S. Embassy that they would respond once they formulated their position, but there is no indication that Kyiv seriously weighed the proposal...
Trump had a meltdown at Zelensky last month after the Ukrainian president rejected a proposed peace deal that involved recognizing Crimea as Russian territory."
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