“Today we are doing everything possible to stop the war in the Donbass and not to lose our best Ukrainians every day, all our efforts are directed at this. But this does not mean that Crimea is being removed from the agenda, it could become the price of peace in the Donbass, ”the Ukrainian leader said.
According to him, Ukraine “will do everything so that the Ukrainian flag flutters over Crimea again”, and will also continue to support Ukrainian citizens living in Crimea.
Earlier Zelensky called the "return" of Crimea part of the national idea of Ukraine.
At the same time, the “Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in Crimea,” Anton Korinevich, noted that Kiev is not yet ready for the “return” of the peninsula.
Crimea became the Russian region after a referendum held in March 2014, in which the majority of the inhabitants of the peninsula voted to reunite with Russia.