Washington-brokered negotiations to end Russia’s war in Ukraine have largely boiled down to a diamond-shaped peninsula about the size of Massachusetts.

"Our army conducted a very accurate operation on military facilities in Crimea: minus one more, the second Russian plane in a day," the president said. Russian military depots in occupied Crimea were also destroyed,

Amid reports that a U.S. peace proposal might include recognizing Moscow's illegal annexation of Crimea, President Donald Trump denied Ukraine was being pressured to accept the move — while also asserting Ukraine had given up the peninsula in 2014 "without firing a shot.