At the opening of the second summit of the “Crimean platform” on August 23, 2022, the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy assured: Ukraine will definitely return to Crimea. From Crimea it [the Russian occupation] all began, and it will end.
Despite the Ukrainian army lacking the necessary weapons and 1:3 manpower advantage for a counterattack, Russia still wasn’t prepared for the Ukrainian counteroffensive.
A resident of Mariupol told KATAPULT Ukraine how she lived in the city, which was subjected to constant shelling for about a month, and managed to survive.
The southern Ukrainian Oblast of Kherson, which once had over one million residents and borders occupied Crimea, is now one of the “bloodiest ” areas in Ukraine.