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According to American General Ben Hodges, the successes of the Armed Forces in t...

"It will change everything": The purpose of the Armed Forces counter -offensive will be Crimea's de -occupation - US General

According to American General Ben Hodges, the successes of the Armed Forces in the occupied territories can make the Russians "devastating effect". The future counter -offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be aimed at the liberation of the Crimean peninsula. This was stated by the former US troops in Europe, Lieutenant General in Ben Hodges in an interview with Deutsche Welle.

According to the American general, the de -occupation of Crimea is a priority for the Armed Forces, since the peninsula is a "decisive territory". He suggested that the Ukrainians would first focus on the peninsula and only then go to the Donbas. "If you free Crimea, it will change everything," Ben Hodges says. The General believes that the battles in eastern Ukraine will not affect the strategic picture, even if "within a radius of 200 kilometers from Bakhmut they will kill every Russian soldier.

" At the same time, he noted that the fighting for Bakhmut significantly weakened the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Hodges also does not exclude that the offensive actions of the Ukrainian army in the occupied territories can commit Russians to "devastating effect". According to him, the successes of the Armed Forces will affect the psychological state of Russian soldiers and power.

We will remind that on April 6 the speaker of the command "South" Natalia Humeniuk reported the successes of Ukrainian military in the Nikolaev area. According to her, the enemy managed to move significantly on the Kinburn Spit. According to the analyst of the American Institute of Entrepreneurship Brady Africa of April 6, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have removed military equipment from the storage sites in northern Crimea.