Zelenskyy says Ukraine ready to put Crimean issue on ice

"Ukraine is now ready to put the Crimean issue on ice," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview with the Italian TV station Rai 1, Report informs.

"We are ready for it. Because disagreements over the status of the peninsula hinder the meeting of the country's leaders. But Kyiv will never recognize Crimea as part of Russia," he added.