Russian-annexed Crimea's return to Ukraine will 'happen for certain': Zelenskiy

FILE PHOTO: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy leaves after receiving Germany's prestigious Charlemagne Prize (Karlspreis), in Aachen, Germany, May 14, 2023. REUTERS/Thilo Schmuelgen

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy set up a reintegration council on Thursday to advise on the restoration of Ukrainian rule over Crimea, saying liberation of the peninsula, seized by Russia in 2014, will "happen for certain".

He was speaking at a gathering in Kyiv to mark the anniversary of the mass Soviet-era deportation of Crimean Tatars from the peninsula in 1944.