The North Atlantic Alliance believes that Ukraine is able to return the Donbass and Crimea. This was reported by CNN, citing a NATO military representative who owns intelligence..

According to him, the alliance is now discussing not only that, probably, Ukraine will liberate the territories occupied after a full-scale invasion, but also whether Kyiv will be able to return Crimea and the territories of Donbass seized by Russia in 2014. NATO members now say momentum has shifted substantially in favor of Ukraine, official said..

" Not now, not soon, but if they can keep fighting, I think so,"

At the same time, he is not sure whether Ukraine should fight for the return of these territories, since not all the local population is positive about this..

In addition, he noted that NATO does not expect great successes on the battlefield in the coming weeks either for Ukraine or for Russia..

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Recall that earlier the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov warned that the war with the Russian Federation on the territory of our state is moving into a protracted phase, and the Russians are beginning to prepare for the defense of the occupied lands.