US President Donald Trump said Russia and Ukraine are “very close to a deal” that would end their three-year war, after his envoy met with President Vladimir Putin on Friday in talks Moscow said were “constructive and very useful.

President Donald Trump said in an interview published Friday that “Crimea will stay with Russia,” the latest example of the U.S. leader pressuring Ukraine to make concessions to end the war while it remains under siege.

Ukraine and Russia "are very close to a deal" to end Russia's war, U.S. President Donald Trump said on April 25. "They are very close to a deal, and the two sides should now meet, at very high levels,