The US presidential administration has allowed the Ukrainian army to use Western weapons to strike at Crimea if Kyiv deems it necessary.
Of course, we do not select targets and everything we have provided is for self defense purposes. Any goal they decide to pursue on sovereign Ukrainian soil is, by definition, self-defense, Politico quotes one of the officials.
To a clarifying question about Crimea, he stressed that “Crimea is Ukraine.”
A Ukrainian official said a message of support had reached Kyiv.
Experts told NatSec Daily that this is the correct position.
Russian troops have nothing to be there, and attacking Russian forces in Crimea is no different from attacking them around Kyiv, in Kherson, or in eastern Ukraine,” said Kurt Volker, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO and special envoy for Ukraine during the Trump administration.
The Biden administration’s stance is less a change than a reaffirmation of a longstanding policy: Ukraine must not use American-made weapons to attack inside Russia (which President Joe Biden fears will trigger World War III), but Washington does not recognize Moscow’s control over the seized peninsula.
As a result, the season is now open against Russian targets in Crimea – and it looks like there will be even more attacks, the magazine wrote.
Source: Racurs
