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US General Ben Hodges believes that Ukraine needs to build good relations with other countries in the region: Romania, Georgia, Moldova, Poland, Turkey. This will provide not only security, but also diplomacy and economy.
Former commander of US forces in Europe in 2014-17, veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Ben Hodges, spoke about this in an interview with RBC-Ukraine.
Cooperation will also be required to ensure that Russia cannot use Crimea for any commercial purpose: not a single Russian ship can leave the Crimea to any other European port.
You must also provide complete freedom from Odessa of Russian influence.
“According to my information, many of the companies that work at the Odessa port facilities are actually Russian. How can you do that? I mean, this is an injury, it is a self-inflicted vulnerability,” he said.
The general also advises to increase the stability of its institutions and infrastructure, strengthen everywhere and never recognize the division of Donbass, the annexation of Crimea.
“As long as Russia continues to block or disrupt traffic through the Kerch Strait, how will they keep Mariupol and Berdyansk viable? And if we improve rail connections from those places to Odessa, we will turn vulnerability into strength,” he says.
Insists that Ukraine apply special efforts for the navy.
“It’s not just about ships. It’s about infrastructure, it’s about training. Ukraine should invest in what we call unmanned maritime systems,” drones for water, “the general said.
Earlier, he said that the conflict in the Donbass could turn into a frozen one.
Note that Vladimir Zelensky believes that the Russian Federation must take key steps to achieve peace in Donbass.
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