A senior Trump adviser said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky‘s hope of regaining Crimea isn’t a priority in peace talks being facilitated by the future Trump administration.

“And if President Zelensky comes to the table and says, well we can only have peace if we have Crimea, he shows to us that he’s not serious,” Republican strategist Brian Lanza told the BBC. “Crimea is gone.”

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