Donald Trump has “played into Vladimir Putin ’s hands” by dropping his demands for a Russian ceasefire , a senior Ukrainian politician has warned.

By aligning himself with Putin’s “insincere” peace proposal , the US president risked repeating Neville Chamberlain’s betrayal of Czechoslovakia at the Munich conference of 1938, Oleksandr Merezhko, the chairman of the Ukrainian parliament’s foreign affairs committee, said.

“If Trump is serious about supporting Putin’s peace treaty idea without calling for a ceasefire first, then it looks very much like a betrayal,” Mr Merezhko told The Telegraph.

“It looks like Munich 1938,” he added referring to the decision to carve out Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland and award it to Hitler in the vain hope of staving off war.

Mr Trump’s effusive w

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