U.S. President Donald Trump says “Crimea will stay with Russia." It's a definitive statement about the need for Ukraine to cede territory to end the war.

In 1944, Stalin deported almost all Crimean Tatars to Central Asia in what Ukraine recognises as an act of genocide. They were only allowed to return home in the late 1980s. As we've been reporting, Crimea has been a point of contention in peace talks for the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

President Donald Trump said “Crimea will stay with Russia” as part of the deal he is pushing, seeming prepared to grant Russian President Vladimir Putin a major win to realize his goal of ending the Ukraine war.