ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday that the Donbas region of Ukraine should be “cut up," leaving most of it in Russian hands, to end a war that has dragged on for nearly four years.

“Let it be cut the way it is,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One. “It's cut up right now," adding that you can “leave it the way it is right now.”

“They can negotiate something later on down the line,” he said. But for now, both sides of the conflict should "stop at the battle line — go home, stop fighting, stop killing people.”

Trump's latest comments came after Ukrainian drones struck a major gas processing plant in southern Russia, sparking a fire and forcing it to suspend its intake of gas from Kazakhstan, Russian and Kazakh authorities said Sunday.

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