LONDON (AP) — Joe Biden said in his first post-presidential interview that President Donald Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to give up territory to Russia amounts to " modern-day appeasement," a historically fraught term that refers to a failed effort to stop the Nazis from annexing land in Europe in the 1930s.

Joe Biden has accused Donald Trump of “modern day appeasement” over his attempts to end the Ukraine war. The US president has said Kyiv will have to concede land to Russia as part of any peace deal. But Biden,

Former US President Joe Biden, in his first interview since leaving the White House, accused his successor Donald Trump of appeasing Russia by pressuring Ukraine to give up its territory. Biden told the BBC that Russian President Vladimir Putin believes Ukraine is part of Russia and that “anybody that thinks he’s going to stop” if Ukrainian territory is conceded as part of a peace deal “is just foolish”.