In Zaporozhye, they said that Ukraine has forever lost access to the Sea of ​​Azov

Coast of the Sea of ​​Azov. Archival photoSIMFEROPOL, May 26.Ukraine has forever lost access to the Sea of ​​Azov, as the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions will never return under the control of the Kyiv regime, Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the military-civilian administration of the Zaporozhye region, told RIA Novosti .Earlier, the Permanent Representative of Crimea to the President of Russia, Deputy Prime Minister of the Crimean Government Georgy Muradov said that after the liberation of Mariupol, the Sea of ​​​​Azov became a sea for joint use by Russia and the DPR. I am sure that after the reunification of our regions with Russia, the Sea of ​​Azov will again, as it was before, become an exclusively inland sea of ​​the Russian Federation,» Rogov said. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. As President Vladimir Putin emphasized, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian armed forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. By the end of March, they managed to «significantly reduce the combat potential of Ukraine.» The main goal of the operation in the department was called the liberation of Donbass. During the special operation, the Russian military took control of the Kherson region and the Azov part of the Zaporozhye region in southern Ukraine. Civil-military administrations have been formed in the regions, Russian TV channels and radio stations have begun broadcasting, and trade ties with Crimea are being restored. territories, declared in the State Duma