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Russian Foreign Ministry rejects possibility of Crimea’s return to Ukraine

Published Feb. 15, 2017 at 11:14 am

A picture taken on Sept. 12, 2016 in the main Crimean city of Simferopol shows an elderly woman walking next to an election campaign poster for the United Russia party with the phrase "Russia is ours".

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MOSCOW – Russia is not planning to return Crimea to Ukraine, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said.

“We do not give our territories back. Crimea is the Russian Federation’s territory,” Zakharova said at a news briefing in commenting on a White House spokesperson’s statement that U.S. President Donald Trump expected Russia to return Crimea to Ukraine.