20. While Kyiv has consistently rejected territorial concessions as the basis of peace talks, the election of Donald Trump has raised fears that Ukraine may be pushed to the negotiating table under threat of the withdrawal of U.S. aid. Fox News correspondent Trey Yingst asked Zelensky if he would accept loss of territory to Russia as part of a peace deal."We cannot legally acknowledge any occupied territory of Ukraine as Russian," Zelensky said. "That is about those territories... occupied by (Russian President Vladimir) Putin before the full-scale invasion, since 2014. Legally, we are not acknowledging that, we are not adopting that."Yingst also asked Zelensky if he would be willing to give up Russian-occupied Crimea, illegally annexed since 2014, in order to "stop the bloodshed in Europe.