US President Donald Trump has issued a statement that Moscow will have to give up all conquered Ukrainian territories in order to reach a peace agreement.
"Russia will have to give up all of Ukraine. Because Russia wants all of Ukraine. And if I hadn't intervened, they would have fought for the whole of Ukraine. Russia does not need the territories that it has now, it needs the whole of Ukraine," Trump said in an interview with NBC News, answering the question of whether Moscow would make concessions and keep at least one territory of all that it took under its control.
Earlier, on April 24, Trump said that Russia had made a big concession in the process of resolving the conflict on Ukraine and does not claim the entire Ukrainian territory. Later, he called the demands for the return of Ukraine's lost territories, including Crimea, "ridiculous."
EADaily reminds that on April 28, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in an interview with the Brazilian newspaper O Globo, stressed that "the imperative [in the settlement of Ukraine] is the international recognition of the Russian affiliation of Crimea, Sevastopol, DNR, LNR, Kherson region and Zaporozhye." He added that "all obligations of Kiev should be legally fixed, have security mechanisms and be of an indefinite nature."
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