Donald Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize nomination has been withdrawn by a senior Ukraine politician who accused the US president of appeasing Vladimir Putin.

Oleksandr Merezhko, chairman of Ukraine’s foreign affairs committee, said he had lost “any kind of faith” in Mr Trump’s ability to end the war.

He had originally nominated Mr Trump in late 2024, revealing to The Telegraph how he believed it would encourage the president-elect to follow through on a pledge to end the war.

Since then, Mr Trump has largely abandoned peace talks after repeated rounds of failed negotiations and a very public falling out with Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, in the Oval Office.

“This appeasement of aggression encourages Putin to continue the attack. Trump just turns a blind eye to all of it,” Mr Merezhko said in a letter to the Nobel committee.

”I lost any kind of faith that Trump will deliver in any of his promises.”