Washington is confident that Kiev has the right to plan and conduct military operations on the territory of Crimea, because the US considers the peninsula a territory of Ukraine. John Kirby, the strategic communications coordinator for the National Security Council, told reporters at a briefing on Dec.
“Crimea is Ukraine. Kirby said that Ukrainians have the right to decide where to conduct operations in their own country, how, at what speed, at what scale and in what time frame.
He was also asked to comment on the message of the American television channel NBC, which, citing sources, reported that the US saw military opportunities in Ukraine to return Crimea. The White House representative did not confirm or deny this information, just pointing out that Kiev’s attempts to return to the peninsula were fraught with a nuclear escalation of the conflict.
At the same time, Jake Sullivan, National Security Advisor to President Joe Biden, speaking at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington on December 16, said that the United States will continue to provide military aid to Ukraine, as the time for peace negotiations has not yet come. .
“Our job is to continue to provide military support to Ukraine to ensure they are in the best position on the battlefield to be in the best position at the negotiating table when the time for diplomacy comes. This moment has not come yet, ”said the vice president.
He also said the Biden administration had sent a request to Congress for “significant funds” for future aid to Kiev. Sullivan did not specify the amount, but expressed confidence that both Democrats and Republicans would approve the request.
Kirby said last week that Washington is not coercing or facilitating Kiev’s military operations inside Russia. Thus, the representative of the White House reacted to attempts to attack the “Dyagilevo” and “Engels” military airfields in the Ryazan and Saratov regions of Ukraine. The coordinator also stressed that the United States is helping Ukraine defend its territory, including territory lost during the military conflict.
On December 10, the Times reported, citing a Pentagon source, that the United States was reviewing its assessment of the threat posed by Moscow and is no longer insisting that the Ukrainian Armed Forces not attack targets on Russian soil.
The interlocutor of the publication said earlier that Washington feared that Russia could use tactical nuclear weapons in response to such attacks. But now the fear that the conflict would escalate had subsided. This happened after the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge, the armed forces of the Russian Federation began massive bombardment of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
Contrary to American officials, the Ukrainian leadership openly declares that it will attack inside Russia if necessary.
“We will be able to do anything. Therefore, if there is something in our interests, then we will not ask anyone where to hit the enemy. “Because the enemy has a position that starts outside our borders and ends in Vladivostok,” said Aleksey Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC), last week.
Earlier, the head of the National Security and Defense Council hinted to Western countries that Kiev needs missiles with a range of 800 km or more. According to Danilov, this will be an “effective solution to the energy problem” and will provide “significant savings in generators” that EU countries have promised to send.
Source: Gazeta
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