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"Putin's intentions for Ukraine are unlikely to change whether there is a ceasefire or any other settlement. The Kremlin will take advantage To prepare for future coercion and aggression against Ukraine, ”analysts say. The ISW also named the territories that need Ukraine from both military and economic point of view.
In particular, it is most of the temporarily occupied territory of Zaporizhzhya, Kherson Donetsk and Luhansk regions - analysts believe that the Armed Forces of Ukraine should be returned under the control of at least part of the territory captured by Russia in 2014. Particular attention in the report pays the need to release Crimea - according to experts, the region is strategically important for both Ukraine itself and NATO.
"The Russian possession of the peninsula allows Russia to place air and anti -ship missiles 325 kilometers west than it could only use the territory that it legally controls. It is in the publication ISW. According to experts, the aforementioned factors are of great importance for the scale of the air and rocket threat that the aggressor state can be the Eastern NATO flank, as well as for the ability of the Russian Federation to prepare and maintain future attacks in Ukraine.
At the same time, according to the report, from all Ukrainian lands, the return of which should be desired by the Alliance, Crimea should be in the first place in the list. We will remind, earlier the chairman of the Bundestag Committee on Defense Marie-Agnes Strak-Zimmermann expressed confidence that it is impossible to achieve termination of war in Ukraine through negotiation with the Kremlin.