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 peninsulaWashington (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. In the meantime, he's going away. 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. Stephanoploulos responded, in a reference to Crimea, which Putin took from Ukraine in early 2014.

Source: CNN July 31, 2016 15:00 UTC