The head of the Ukrainian state Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine will consider the ousting of the Russian troops to their position before February 24 as a victory in the war against Russia..

" Our number one task is to send and put the squeeze on Russian troops to the territories where they were before February 24.

We understand that it will be difficult to fully restore territorial integrity on the temporarily occupied peninsula of Crimea, and yet, I believe that we will be able later, having shown our strength, and we are demonstrating it, then switch to a diplomatic path, because any war ends with diplomacy, "

The President noted that our country will be able to oust Russia and everything will end with negotiations, but it is not yet known when this will happen..

He also added: " In any case, it will still end with one format or another of the negotiations.. How long it will go I can’t say, here I have no guarantees”.

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Kirill Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, spoke about two possible options for ending the war in Ukraine: either Russia will split into two or more parts, or power will change there.