Decisive battle for the liberation of Crimea: Ukraine launches new multiple offensives

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According to the report, temporarily occupied Crimea is of great importance for Ukraine in economic and military-political terms. It is difficult to return it by military means because Russia, together with the countries that support it, has a resource advantage over Kyiv. This was stated to the UNN by the First Deputy Minister of Defense Ivan Havryliuk.“Crimea is a peninsula that has strategic importance in terms of gaining an advantage, especially in the Black Sea and Azov regions. Therefore, Crimea is of great importance, both economically and militarily-politically, for Ukraine. For Russia as well”, Havryliuk stated. Havryliuk commented on the possibility of returning Crimea by military means.“It is difficult by military means because Russia, together with the countries that support it, has a resource advantage over Ukraine. Therefore, the issue of returning Crimea lies in both the military and political spheres. More precisely, it is more in the diplomatic sphere”, Havryliuk said. Olha Kuryshko, Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, also commented on the issue of Crimea's return to the UNN.

The report also said that the liberation of all temporarily occupied territories, and this is not only about Crimea, but also about other TOTs, is a guarantee of security and stability. In fact, what Russia did with Crimea was to build a military base from which it began a full-scale invasion of the territory of Ukraine. This means that leaving these territories in the status or format they are in now is just a suspension, a certain freezing, but it is not the elimination of the causes and not a preventive measure against what will happen next”, Kuryshko told UNN. According to her, Russia is currently militarizing people and imprisoning people with pro-Ukrainian positions in the occupied territories.“At the moment, it is quite obvious that what the Russian Federation is doing in the TOT is laying the groundwork for the future – the militarization of people living there, forced expulsion, and imprisonment of those people who have a pro-Ukrainian position. New colonization of temporarily occupied territories by citizens of the Russian Federation. Everything just points to the fact that Russia will use these territories in the future for war and destabilization of the situation, not only in Ukraine, but also in Europe”, the report says.