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Austria’s Foreign Minister Beate Meinl-Reisinger said in an interview with Die Welt that Trump was ready to “hand over” Crimea and parts of eastern Ukraine to Russian President Vladimir Putin. But Putin chose to keep fighting.
The Minister said the situation is clear: Ukraine wants peace, while Russia does not. Putin would have already started negotiations to end the war if he were truly interested in peace.
Wtf dude of course it has been an illegal invasion and annexation. The majority of the Crimean population until 2014 clearly did not want to be part of Russia. (And that changed since 2014 because Russia forcibly deported people). Crimea is not Russia.
That does not change the fact that Crimea has had a unique status and is not comparable to the Donbas. The Donbas is an integral part of Ukraine. Crimea has been an autonomous republic and has tried multiple times to use a legitimate process to widen their powers, which Ukraine’s centralized state model did not approve of.