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Washington (CNN)Donald Trump said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin …
Trump says Putin is 'not going to go into Ukraine,' despite Crimea
Story highlights
- Donald Trump insisted Russia's Vladimir Putin is 'not going to go into Ukraine'
- Putin did just that in 2014, seizing Ukraine's Crimean peninsula
Washington (CNN)Donald
Trump said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin won't make a
military move into Ukraine -- even though Putin already has done just
that, seizing the country's Crimean peninsula.
"He's
not going into Ukraine, OK, just so you understand. He's not going to
go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You can put it down.
You can take it anywhere you want," Trump said in an interview with
ABC's George Stephanopoulos on "This Week."
"Well,
he's already there, isn't he?" Stephanoploulos responded, in a
reference to Crimea, which Putin took from Ukraine in early 2014.
Trump
said: "OK -- well, he's there in a certain way. But I'm not there. You
have Obama there. And frankly, that whole part of the world is a mess
under Obama with all the strength that you're talking about and all of
the power of NATO and all of this. In the meantime, he's going away. He
takes Crimea."
Stephanopoulos interjected
to note that Trump has suggested he could recognize Russia's claim on
Crimea over Ukraine's -- and Trump didn't back away from that
possibility in the interview.
"I'm
going to take a look at it," he said. "But you know, the people of
Crimea, from what I've heard, would rather be with Russia than where
they were. And you have to look at that, also ... just so you
understand, that was done under Obama's administration."
Trump
added: "And as far as the Ukraine is concerned, it's a mess. And that's
under the Obama's administration with his strong ties to NATO. So with
all of these strong ties to NATO, Ukraine is a mess. Crimea has been
taken. Don't blame Donald Trump for that."
Stephanopoulos
also pressed Trump on changes to the Republican platform removing calls
for the provision of lethal weapons so the people of Ukraine can defend
themselves, which Trump said he had nothing to do with.
And he asked about Trump's claims in recent years that he has a personal relationship with Putin.
"I have no relationship with Putin. I have no relationship with Putin," Trump said.
"Just
so you understand, he said very nice things about me. But I have no
relationship with him. I don't -- I've never met him," said Trump.
But in a November 2015 Republican primary debate, Trump had said of Putin: "I got to know him very well because we were both on '60 Minutes,' we were stablemates."
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