© AFP/StringerBillowing smoke from a munitions depot in Mayskoye, Crimea
August 16, 2022
August 16, 2022
Washington won't stand in the way of attacks on the peninsula "if Kiev deems them necessary," the outlet reported. Historically Russian, Crimea was part of independent Ukraine from 1991 to 2014 before locals voted to reunify with Moscow.
"We don't select targets, of course, and everything we've provided is for self-defense purposes. Any target they choose to pursue on sovereign Ukrainian soil is by definition self defense," the anonymous official said.
Asked by Politico if the Biden administration considered the peninsula sovereign Ukrainian territory, the official said: "Crimea is Ukraine."
Crimea broke away from Ukraine following an armed coup in Kiev in 2014 and voted overwhelmingly in a referendum to join Russia, which was not recognized by the West.
A Ukrainian official told the outlet that the "message of support" from Biden's administration "had made its way to Kiev."
Politico's reporting echoes earlier comments by Ukrainian Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov. Reznikov told US government-funded broadcaster Voice of America on Thursday that Kiev's promise not to attack Russian territory with Western-provided weapons does not cover Crimea - and that Washington had not objected to Ukrainian attacks there.
Powerful explosions near a Russian ammunition depot rocked the village of Mayskoye in northeastern Crimea on Tuesday. It was the second such incident in a matter of weeks, with a series of explosions also happening at the Saki military airfield earlier in the month, injuring 14 people and killing one.
Russia's Ministry of Defense said the recent strikes were acts of "sabotage" and caused damage to civilian objects, including power lines, a power station, a railroad and several residential buildings.
Ukraine has not directly confirmed responsibility for the recent attacks, but following the incident at the Saki airfield, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said the war "began with Crimea and must end with Crimea - its liberation."
Apparently, European countries are understanding that the path to peace in Ukraine requires stopping military aid, but not amerikka, those nazi loving dogs just love war, death and destruction,
The decline has been occurring since April. Looking from a realistic point of view it is possible that the Russian advance may have discouraged European leaders from maintaining high spending on the conflict, considering it as simply “lost”. Also, the discouragement may have been intensified especially after the Russian victory at the battle of Azovstal in May, when Western analysts finally began to admit that Kiev is losing the conflict.
mass genocide, evil as fuk war crimes, civilians being evacuated by buss loads, taken into forrest areas, made to strip and all machine gunned, then thrown into mass grave pits, by yours truly, the nazi scum "azov battalion", a usa backed mercenary group of degenerates well paid with yes you guessed it, american dollars...
remember a short while ago, nazi dogs targetted a medical and detention centre, well, those were surrendered azov scum, they were talking, telling truths to that they were ordered to do, so the bisexual little man that loves wearing womens underwear ordered a hit on the place killing its own troops, very typical of a maggot in trouble, get rid of any evidence of mass war crimes, but hey, the mighty strong very truth telling nazi lovers, usa, just keeps on giving and giving, whilst its own country slides down the shit tube..
anyway, looks like europe is slowly waking up, is going to maybe freeze to death or pay tripple priced gas from the amerikkkan gov.. again, so very typical, mostly it was also to do with shutting down nord stream 2 in germany, got to give it to the amerikkkans, they just love starting chaos, death and destruction where ever they go, look at the mid east now, mainly ruined,
who would think an old bumbling pedo could end up being the president of the one only USA!!
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