Crimea will stay with Russia Trump

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25 Apr 2025, 16:08 GMT+10

The US president has claimed that even Zelensky understands the peninsula will remain under Moscows control in a final settlement

The Crimean Peninsula will remain a part of Russia under a final settlement of the Ukraine conflict, US President Donald Trump has said in an interview with Time Magazine published on Friday.

Crimea officially joined the Russian Federation in 2014 after a referendum that followed a Western-backed coup in Kiev. Ukraine and its backers have dismissed the results of the referendum as illegitimate, and Kiev has continued to claim sovereignty over the peninsula, vowing to take it back by any means necessary.

In an interview with Time Magazine to mark his first 100 days in office, Trump said Crimea "went to the Russians" long ago and suggested that "everyone understands" that Ukraine will not be able to get it back.

"Crimea will stay with Russia" under a final settlement of the Ukraine conflict, Trump went on to say, adding that even Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky understands this. "It's been with them for a long time," the US president stated, noting that Russia had its submarines there "long before any period that we're talking about" and that the majority of Crimeans speak Russian.

Trump also stressed that the peninsula was "given" to Russia by former US President Barack Obama, claiming that the whole conflict is "Obama's war," which "should have never happened."

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