SIMFEROPOL, Jun 18Oleg Kryuchkov, adviser to the head of Crimea on information policy, called the new strategy of the Kyiv authorities to return the peninsula by military means «insignificant». Volodymyr Zelensky's representative «on Crimea» Tamila Tasheva said that Kyiv's approaches to the return of Crimea after February 24 have changed, now this will be achieved by military means, the media reported. She also stated that the special status of Sevastopol would be abolished. Earlier, Kyiv insisted on a diplomatic path to regain control over Crimea. «Such statements once again prove the timeliness of the start of a special military operation in Ukraine. Kyiv has been preparing for aggression against Crimea all these years, hiding behind fairy tales about diplomacy. All their strategies are insignificant and mean nothing. Crimea is an impenetrable fortress,» Kryuchkov told RIA Novosti. According to him, the conduct of a special military operation will once and for all secure Crimea from the encroachments of Ukrainian nationalists. jpg» />Yesterday, 08:00 «They want to hit the Crimean bridge.» What Kyiv asked the United States «When Russian troops take Kyiv, any threat to the peninsula will disappear,» Kryuchkov emphasized. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
