Zelenskyy says Ukraine cannot accept US recognition of Crimea as Russian

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine could not accept US recognition of Russia's annexation of Crimea as he visited South Africa, while both he and Donald Trump criticised a deadly missile and drone attack on Kyiv. Though he did not mention Crimea - the contested Black Sea peninsula occupied by Russia since spring 2014 - by name, Ukraine's president diplomatically returned to the topic a day after Trump accused him of intransigence on the issue. Zelenskyy was speaking alongside his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, on a trip that he then cut short after the assault on Kyiv that left at least…