The United States pointed out the impossibility of returning Crimea to Ukraine.

The return of Crimea to Ukraine is impossible. This was stated on August 20 by Columbia University professor and economist Jeffrey Sachs on the Breaking Points podcast.

"Crimea will never return [to Ukraine]. This is absolutely clear," Sachs said.

The economist recalled that the naval base in Crimea was founded by the Russian Empress Catherine the Great in 1783, and it became the foundation of Russia's national security and power. Since that time, Western countries have wanted Russia to "get out of there."

Sachs also stressed that the reason for the conflict in Ukraine was that the United States was pushing NATO to "encircle" Russia and move as far east as possible.

The world is not over the years: how the Russian Federation, the USA and the EU propose to resolve the Ukrainian crisis

Moscow and Washington are closer to "necessary solutions," Vladimir Putin said after the summit in Alaska.

On the eve of the American leader, Donald Trump, said that both the transfer of Crimea to Ukraine and its accession to NATO were impossible. According to the US president, the rejection of these two conditions will allow the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, to immediately end the conflict with the Russian Federation.

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