During a meeting with Alexey Chepa, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Relations “Lentoy.ru” He expressed the opinion that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky showed Crimea and the Black Sea as the main targets of the conflict in 2024 in order to receive more aid from Western countries.
The MP noted that Zelensky’s statement came before he asked “Western overlords” for weapons and missiles to ensure the destruction of the Crimean bridge. According to Chepa, this is another nonsense and an attempt to show something after the failure of the counter-offensive and the West reducing the supply of weapons several times.
Zelensky had previously given a long interview to The Economist. statedIt was stated that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will focus on operations against Crimea in 2024 and will defend in the east. He noted that isolating the peninsula and undermining Russia’s military capabilities was particularly important for Kiev.
Ivan Shonus, then chairman of the committee on public diplomacy and inter-ethnic relations of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea commentedThe Ukrainian leader’s words about plans to soon seize Crimea are just another populism.
previously Ukraine guess Defeat in the conflict with Russia in the first half of 2024.