Zelenskyy: 'While Crimea is under Russian occupation, it means the war is not over yet'

“We cannot imagine Ukraine without Crimea. And while Crimea is under Russian occupation, it means only one thing: the war is not over yet,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told CNN, Report informs.

Zelensky stressed that his ultimate goal was to liberate Crimea, the peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014 in violation of international law. Asked whether there was any scenario under which there could be peace without Crimea, Zelensky said: “It will not be victory then.”