US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Washington did not place any restrictions on the use of its weapons by Ukraine for attacks in Crimea. He said this in an interview with the TV channel. CNN.
In response to a question about whether American weapons could be used to strike Crimea, Sullivan said the United States had said that they would not allow Ukraine to use American and Western weapons to strike Russia, but that there were no restrictions on attacks on internationally recognized territory. The borders of the country are not defined.
Former Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov commented A ban on the use of Britain’s long-range cruise missiles to strike Russian territory. Danilov noted that “Crimea, Lugansk, Donetsk regions, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions” are the territory of Ukraine (these regions joined the Russian Federation in the referendums in 2014 and 2022 – ed.). In this context, the official stressed that Kiev intends to “defend” these regions as it sees fit.