'WILL REGAIN CRIMEA THROUGH DIPLOMACY'

Zelenskyy says Ukraine will not legally acknowledge invaded areas as Russian

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Ukraine can take back Crimea only through diplomatic means. "We cannot spend thousands of our people so that they perish for the sake of Crimea coming back...we understand that Crimea can be brought back diplomatically," the Ukrainian President told Fox News.

Russia illegally annexed Crimea in 2014. "I was already mentioning that we are ready to bring Crimea back diplomatically," Zelenskyy said.

Asked on Fox whether Ukraine might give up territory for peace, Zelenskyy said: "We cannot legally acknowledge any occupied territory of Ukraine as Russian. That is about those territories...occupied by (Vladimir) Putin before the full-scale invasion, since 2014. Legally, we are not acknowledging that, we are not adopting that."