Sevastopol will be returned to Ukraine, said the new governor of the Odessa region, Mikheil Saakashvili, during a speech on the deck of the flagship of the Ukrainian Navy frigate “Getman Sagaidachny”.
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“Our heroic Navy will do everything to ensure that the enemy cannot continue further attacks on our cities and villages...
In the future, we will do everything to ensure that everything that they temporarily seized, including the Ukrainian Navy base in Crimea, is all returned to Ukraine, under Ukrainian full and actual control. This will definitely happen, there is no alternative to this,” Saakashvili said.
He assured that for now the Ukrainian Navy will remain in Odessa.
“The home base of the Ukrainian Navy can only be the city of Odessa with its glorious maritime traditions, unique specifics and the prospect that in this stunning city the Navy will be preserved and developed as never before... The Navy will be here until the next victories, until the next heroic achievements “, Saakashvili promised.
Earlier, Defense Minister Valeriy Geletey promised to hold a “Victory Parade in Ukrainian Sevastopol” from the rostrum of the Verkhovna Rada. However, soon after the defeat of the Ukrainian group in the “cauldrons” in Donbass, Geletey was dismissed.