Ukraine cannot remove the Russian army from the territory of Crimea. This is what the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has announced in an interview with the French media "Le Parisien", he has admitted that the armed forces of Ukraine are not able to expel the Russian troops from Crimea and other occupied territories in Ukraine, writes A2 CNN.
"We cannot give up our territories. The Constitution of Ukraine forbids us from this. De facto, these territories are now controlled by the Russians. We don't have the strength to recover them," he told French newspaper Le Parisien. "We can only count on diplomatic pressure from the international community to force Putin to sit down at the negotiating table," he said.
Russia annexed the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea in 2014 and controls about 80 percent of Donbass, an industrial area that includes the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. It has also captured parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, although it does not control major cities in either area. The Kremlin says all five regions belong to Russia. (A2 Televizion)
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