MOSCOW, March 8 the capture of Crimea and the withdrawal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the Kerch Strait, writes Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Crawford of the British Army in an article for Express. and the entrance to the Sea of Azov through the Kerch Strait,” the officer believes.
In his opinion, the peninsula should be the ultimate goal of the Kiev leadership in the conflict.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly announced plans to seize Crimea and Donbass. In early February, Acting Interior Minister of Ukraine Igor Klymenko announced that the Kiev authorities had begun to form assault brigades for this operation.
In Russia, such attempts were called suicidal, noting that it was simply impossible to wrest part of the territory from a powerful nuclear power. As Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Permanent Chairman of the Security Council, stressed, strikes on Crimea will be followed by retaliation strikes, «all Ukraine remaining under Kyiv's rule will burn.»