U.S. approves of Ukraine striking Russian-occupied Crimea
Attacking Crimea is fair game for Ukraine — and it has America’s support to hit the Russians there.
Kyiv was behind the three explosions this past week on the Russian-annexed peninsula, per a CNN-obtained Ukrainian government document, including a large blast at Saki airbase that destroyed several of Moscow’s warplanes.
No Ukrainian official has yet publicly admitted to Kyiv’s involvement in the Crimea campaign. But Defense Minister OLEKSII REZNIKOV told Voice of America Wednesday that Ukraine hasn’t ruled out striking the occupied territory with U.S.-provided weapons.
“If we are talking today about the de-occupation of temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine where the enemy is, then, correspondingly, we have no such restrictions,” he said, emphasizing that there still would be no attacks inside the legally recognized boundaries of Russia (though there have been some, umm, mysterious blasts on Russian border cities).
