Military expert Dmitry Snegirev believes that the order of President Volodymyr Zelensky to liberate the south of Ukraine indicates the transition to the third stage of the war - the counteroffensive.. He said this on the air of the telethon.

" This is a counteroffensive and the liberation of the temporarily occupied territories. Not only the territories of the Kherson region, but also the Zaporozhye and Donetsk regions,"

Snegiryov believes that the Ukrainian military wants to neutralize Russia's plan to build a land corridor from the occupied Donbass to Crimea in order to provide the annexed peninsula with water.

" In addition, this is a solution to the economic problems of Ukraine. First of all, unblocking the work of the Black Sea ports,"

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Recall, Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said that President Volodymyr Zelensky ordered the military leadership to develop a plan for the de-occupation of the south. These areas are of strategic importance to our economy, so our country is gathering millions of fighting forces equipped with Western weapons to liberate them..

Earlier, the Minister for Reintegration of the WTO, Iryna Vereshchuk, urged residents of Zaporizhia and Kherson regions to evacuate as quickly as possible by all available means. According to Vereshchuk, the battles for the de-occupation of Ukrainian territories will be difficult, the Russian invaders will try to hide behind civilians as a human shield..

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