President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine would return to Donbas.

"Every year, on the last weekend of summer, two holidays were celebrated in our state – the Day of the City of Donetsk and the Miner's Day. In 1914, everything changed for Donetsk because of the occupiers," he said in a traditional video statement on Sunday evening.

"And this year, the whole of Ukraine is not up to the holidays. But we have not forgotten and will not forget about one of our cities and not one of our people. Donetsk has always been one of the richest and most powerful cities in Ukraine. Mining has always been one of the most respected professions," Zelensky said.

According to him, "Now Donbas is almost destroyed by Russian strikes, devastated. Proud and glorious Ukrainian Donetsk has been humiliated by the Russian occupation, robbed."

"But Ukraine will return. Necessarily. Dignity will return to the people of Donbas. The opportunity to live will return. The opportunity to live safely and prosperously. This is what our Ukrainian flag will symbolize when we install it in Donetsk, Horlivka, Mariupol, in all cities of Donbas and Azov area, in all areas under Russian occupation – in Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, Kherson regions. And definitely – in Crimea. Ukraine remembers everything," the president said.