National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov believes Ukraine needs to finish the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) and move to a new format of protecting the country from the hybrid war with Russia.In his opinion, Hostilities in the east of our country have continued for three years and have outgrown both the duration and the scale of the ATO format.
Turchynov said in an exclusive interview with Interfax-Ukraine that it's time to define a new format that will effectively protect Ukraine from the hybrid methods of war used by Russia. "It's time not only to recognize some areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions as occupied, but to outline at the legislative level the basis of the state policy for their liberation.It is necessary to give the president the right to use the army and other military formations against the hybrid aggression by Russia," the NSDC secretary stressed.
