Ukraine will return Crimea with the help of both military force and diplomacy, said Kirill Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, calling it a combined path. In an interview with Liga. net, he noted that he was not interested in listening to the opinions of people who do not reflect the position of the Ukrainian people and consider the temporarily annexed peninsula to be a "

" We will return all the lost territories back,"

He noted that the borders of the state of Ukraine were determined in 1991.. People who do not agree with them - do not agree with the world order formed after the end of the Second World War with the foundations of the UN.

" But without power nothing will be. Our units will go there with weapons in their hands,"

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We will remind, the former commander of the US Army in Europe, General Ben Hodges believes that Ukraine will be able to regain control over the occupied Crimea until August 2023. In his opinion, there will be no stoppage of fighting due to winter. The Defense Forces use the cold months to prepare.

Meanwhile, NSDC Secretary Aleksey Danilov noted that the Russians who settled on the peninsula after its annexation by the Russian Federation "