“All occupied territories will remain temporarily occupied and will certainly be liberated over time,” he stressed.
Budanov noted that the Kremlin has not changed its goals in this war, and its goal is not a number of individual regions, but the whole of Ukraine.
“It is naive to believe that, having captured part of the territories without a fight, Moscow will abandon the desire for further expansion. Therefore, the only real deterrent is the Ukrainian army. Over the entire 12 years of the war, Russia has not been able to completely occupy a single region of Ukraine, and I am sure that this situation will not change in the future,” said the head of the OP.
Context
The aggressor country of the Russian Federation launched a war against Ukraine in 2014, when it occupied Crimea and parts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine from the northern, eastern and southern directions.
At the moment, most of the territories of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, parts of the Zaporozhye, Kherson (left bank), Dnepropetrovsk regions, as well as Crimea are under Russian occupation. Separate border areas of the Kharkov and Sumy regions and the Kinburn Peninsula (Nikolaev region) are also occupied.
