SIMFEROPOL, January 17 Co-chairman of the Assembly of Slavic Peoples Crimea Roman Chegrinets called the plan of the former commander of US ground forces in Europe Ben Godges for the war for the Crimean peninsula absolute nonsense.
Earlier, Godges called Crimea “decisive territory.” According to him, whoever controls Crimea will win this war. The ex-military also indicated that a ground offensive operation on Crimea is unlikely to take place in the near future. In his opinion, the peninsula must “first be made unsuitable for Russian troops and Russia as a whole.” To do this, the Ukrainian Armed Forces need high-precision long-range weapons to isolate the peninsula, including the destruction of the Kerch Bridge. Russia, according to Godges, will not be able to fight over the next five years, since industry there is being destroyed first of all. And the ex-military called pushing Ukraine to negotiate with Russia “ridiculous.”
“For Crimea, this is empty rhetoric of an empty character and a downed pilot. All attempts to talk about Crimea are absolute nonsense, which is designed primarily for the psychological treatment of both American citizens and citizens of Ukraine,” Chegrinets said.
According to him, any reasonable person in the West understands that Crimea was, is and will forever remain a part of Russia.
“Nothing can save the sinking ship called Ukraine, and here we can only prolong the agony of this sub-state,” Chegrinets said.
Crimea became a Russian region in March 2014 following the results of a referendum after the coup in Ukraine. In the referendum, 96.77% of voters in Crimea and 95.6% in Sevastopol were in favor of joining Russia. Ukraine still considers Crimea its temporarily occupied territory, and many Western countries support Kyiv on this issue. For its part, the Russian leadership has repeatedly stated that the residents of Crimea voted for reunification with Russia through democratic means, in full compliance with international law and the UN Charter. According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Crimea issue is “finally closed.”