On Thursday the Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that he agrees with the US President that Ukraine “lost” Crimea “years ago.”
Donald Trump’s administration is trying to broker a deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine and want Kyiv to accept Crimea is now Russian as part of a peace deal, but the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said this “violates our constitution.”
On Wednesday Trump wrote on Truth Social platform that Crimea has been for a longtime Soviet which holds Russian naval bases and it is “not even a point of discussion” which was “lost years ago.”
Peskov told AFP “This completely corresponds with our understanding, which we have been saying for a long time.”
The US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff has met with Vladmir Putin and told Fox News a potential peace deal might centre over the five territories that Russia partially occupies.
These territories are Kherson, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Crimea which were illegally annexed by Moscow.
President Zelensky said, “There is nothing to talk about. This violates our Constitution. This is our territory, the territory of the people of Ukraine.”
