President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Donbas, southern Ukraine and Crimea will be liberated in the same way as Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy regions, the anniversary of the liberation of the first settlements of which is being celebrated these days.

"Today, Ukraine began to mark the first anniversary of the first victorious battles of the full-scale war – the battles in the north of our country that made the occupier flee. It was on March 21 last year that the Battle of Moshchun, a small village in Kyiv region, ended, and it was the first major step of our country towards victory in this war," he said in a video address on Tuesday.

He recalled "the Battle of Hostomel. The Battle of Irpin. Fighting in Chernihiv and Sumy regions. The Battle of Zmiinyi."

"We will achieve the same result in other active actions. In the heroic battle for Donbas, which will inevitably be dominated by the Ukrainian flag. In the subsequent confrontation in the south, which will restore normal Ukrainian life in the Azov region. In the return of our Crimea, from where the migration of the most far-sighted rats of the terrorist state has already begun," Zelenskyy said.

According to him, "our confidence in the victory of Ukraine, our vision of a free future for our state, Ukrainian heroism that struck the world - all this was born there ... In the hero cities of the Ukrainian north, Ukrainian east, Ukrainian south."