Budanov also said that the goal of the Kyiv authorities is to return Ukraine to the 1991 borders, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky previously stated.
On December 29, Budanov, in an interview with journalists, stated that Ukraine could not achieve serious success in the confrontation with Russia, since the Ukrainian army did not have enough resources for this. He also previously stated that Kyiv intends to “return Crimea <...> by force and diplomacy”.
