Trump says 'Crimea will stay with Russia' as he seeks end to war in Ukraine

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 8:10 AM EDT, April 25, 2025

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Donald Trump said in an interview published on Friday that “Crimea will stay with Russia,” the latest example of the U.S. leader pressuring Ukraine to make concessions to end the war while it remains under siege. “Zelenskyy understands that,” Trump said, referring to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, “and everybody understands that it’s been with them for a long time.”

The U.S. president made the comments in a Time magazine interview conducted on Tuesday. Trump has been accusing Zelenskyy of prolonging the war by resisting negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Crimea is a strategic peninsula along the Black Sea in southern Ukraine. It was seized by Russia in 2014, while President Barack Obama was in office, years before the full-scale invasion that began in 2022.

“They’ve had their submarines there for long before any period that we’re talking about, for many years. The people speak largely Russian in Crimea,” Trump said. “But this was given by Obama. This wasn’t given by Trump.”

Meanwhile, Russia has continued its bombardment. A drone struck an apartment building in a southeastern Ukraine city, killing three people and injuring 10 others, officials said Friday, a day after Trump rebuked Russia’s leader for a deadly missile and drone attack on Kyiv.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-trump-putin-33015fe967ab7cd09fee165fed59953e

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Link to Time article - https://time.com/7280106/trump-interview-100-days-2025/

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Maybe Ukraine will take a different stance on their land. I guess Mexico should be

taking back Texas.

[creon]

2. Neither side

Neither side is prepared to stop.
Trump does not have the means to impose conditions.

[PortTack]

8. If putin stops fighting, it will end of the war, but, if Ukraine stops it will be the end of Ukraine

[twodogsbarking]

3. Well that settles that.

[Norrrm]

4. Donald talked tough on Crimea when he was not in power to do anything about it.

Donald talked tough on Crimea when he was not in power to do anything about it.

Now he kowtows to Putin.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=trump+would+not+have+let+russia+take+crimea&qpvt=trump+would+not+have+let+russia+take+crimea&FORM=VDRE

[ananda]

5. That rock and hardplace are closing in.

Trump really wants those minerals, but he stilll
has to suck up to Putin, hence the attempt to
bully Ukraine to acknowledge Crimea as Russian.

[womanofthehills]

11. Problem now is - less than 3% of Ukrainians live in Crimea

Russia has had Crimea for about 11 yrs now - the population is basically all Russian with a small population of Crimean Tatars.

[Firestorm49]

6. Trump isn't seeking the end of anything. He's bloviating again to appeal to his idiot base.

Trump would have no problem selling all of Ukraine down the river if he can get credit in Putins eyes as an asset fulfilling his obligation to help disrupt the global alliances in Putins favor.

[PortTack]

7. Oh STFU donnie..nobody is listening to what you say!

[republianmushroom]

9. Why he said that.

Because that is what his puppet master has told him to say.

[LiberalLovinLug]

10. He's just mentoring Zelensky on The Art of the Deal

give up all your cards FIRST. That is the most important thing