Russia has issued another stern warning related to further potential Ukrainian attacks on Crimea. "Strikes on this territory are considered by us as an attack on any other region of the Russian Federation. It is important that the United States is fully aware of the Russian response," Moscow’s ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, warned Sunday.
This was in response to an earlier weekend statement by US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan to CNN. He said while speaking from the G7 summit in Japan over the weekend, “we have not placed limitations on Ukraine being able to strike on its territory… What we’ve said is that we won't enable Ukraine with US-systems to attack Russia. And we believe Crimea is Ukraine.”
However, the US has consistently denied that it has OK'd Ukraine using US-supplied advanced weaponry to mount such attacks.
Antonov further stated on Telegram in response that "the unconditional approval of strikes on Crimea using American and other Western weapons" alongside the move among Western allies to supply Ukraine with jets "clearly demonstrate that the United States has never been interested in peace."
He warned the US administration against "thoughtless judgments on Crimea, especially in terms of ‘blessing’ the Kiev regime for air attacks" on the peninsula.
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