Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed to retake control of the peninsula in the ongoing war.
has vowed that his country will free Crimea and all other Russian-occupied territory.
"This Russian war against Ukraine and against the entire free Europe began with Crimea and must end with Crimea - with its liberation," Zelensky said in an August 9 address."Today it is impossible to say when this will happen. But we are constantly adding the necessary components to the formula of liberation of Crimea."last week in Crimea, after which the governor of Sevastopol, the peninsula's largest city, said that Russian forces shot down a drone over the Black Sea.
Russian Navy members patrol in front of a headquarter of Russia's Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, in Crimea on July 31, with an inset of President Vladimir Putin on November 9. A retired U.S. lieutenant general predicted Monday that Ukraine's army will be able to seize control of the occupied Crimea peninsula by August 2023 as the war-torn country continues to counter Russia's ongoing invasion.
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