Andrii Deshchytsia made the declaration in a television interview on Monday.
He told Polish private broadcaster TVN24: “Ukrainian troops will fight until our state regains control over the entire territory of Ukraine.”
'We must win this war'
He cautioned that “if we leave the Crimean peninsula in [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s hands, he will revive himself within a few years.”
“We can’t let that happen - in either Ukraine or the rest of the world,” Deshchytsia said.
He added that Putin “may lose control of both Crimea and Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region” as a result of the war.
Deshchytsia told TVN24: “We must win this war and ensure that Russia ceases to be a military state that threatens its neighbours - this is our shared task.”
'Ukraine will join NATO'
Deshchytsia said that Ukraine “is definitely winning” the war, which will end “soon.”
He added that, in response to Russia’s invasion of his country, “NATO will have more members.”
“Sweden and Finland want to join NATO, and Ukraine will join NATO, which is the opposite of what Putin sought to achieve,” he also said.
'I can understand the emotions'
Deshchytsia was also asked to comment on an incident in which the Russian ambassador to Poland, Sergiy Andreev, was splattered with a red substance by anti-war campaigners in Warsaw on Monday.
Deshchytsia replied that he could "understand the emotions of the people after what the Russian army did in Bucha, Irpin and other places" in Ukraine.
“I can understand the emotions caused by the fact that our acquaintances, family members are being killed,” he said.
“Hopefully, the ambassador realises now what Ukrainians and the rest of the world are feeling towards him and Russia,” Deshchytsia added.
Tuesday is day 76 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Source: PAP, tvn24.pl