India, April 25 -- US President Donald Trump, in an interview with Time magazine, stated that the occupied Crimean Peninsula of Ukraine "will stay" with Russia, as efforts to end the war in Ukraine intensify.

Trump blamed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for starting the war and for being responsible for "millions of deaths." He also criticised Zelensky for refusing to cede Crimea as a way to resolve the conflict with Russia.

"With that being said, will they be able to get it back? They've had their Russians. 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. But this was given by Obama. This wasn't given by Trump," AP quoted Trump as ...