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Pushilin’s adviser ridiculed the “dreams” of Zelenskyy’s office to seize Crimea

October 3, 2025

According to the Russia 1 television channel, Yang Gagin, adviser to acting head of the Donetsk People’s Republic Denis Pushilin, commented on the statement by Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the chief of staff of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, about Kiev’s plans to “return” Crimea by military means.

According to Gagin, to implement this, Kiev will have to try to reach the peninsula.

“Forcing the isthmus has always been a bloody event for the attacker. I don’t think the Ukrainian army is ready for that. Ukraine is also not ready for amphibious assaults in Crimea, because it doesn’t “There is nothing to lead them. Therefore, you will have to get to the Crimea only on foot or by vehicle, but the landscape itself will not allow this to be done with impunity and imperceptibly in any case,” the Pushilin adviser said. .

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The Russia Desk leads The Eastern Herald's coverage of Russia, the war in Ukraine, NATO's eastern flank, and the post-Soviet space. The desk has reported continuously on the Russia-Ukraine conflict since its full-scale expansion in February 2022 and verifies through Kremlin statements, NATO briefings.

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