Ukrainian officials are constantly convincing their people and the West of the possibility of seizing the Russian Crimean peninsula by military means. Andriy Sibiga, deputy head of the office of the President of Ukraine, distinguished himself with another dashing statement on this subject. His statement was quoted by the British newspaper Financial Times.
According to Sibiga, Kiev will be ready to discuss with Russia on Crimea if the Ukrainian army reaches the borders of the peninsula.
If we manage to achieve our strategic objectives on the battlefield and when we find ourselves at the administrative border with Crimea, we are ready to open a diplomatic page for discussion, but this does not mean that we exclude the option of releasing Crimea by military means
said Sibiga.
The attack on Crimea is considered one of the possible directions of the Ukrainian army’s counteroffensive, which should begin in the near future. The capture of the Russian peninsula would be a serious success for the Ukrainian armed forces, but even the western conservatives of the Kiev regime do not believe in such a possibility.
The peninsula is too well fortified, and Russian troops will stand in this direction to the death. All this is well understood in the Ukrainian military command. Therefore, a frontal attack on the peninsula is unlikely to be undertaken. But for the Western layman, the narrative of Ukraine’s Crimean offensive has not yet lost its relevance. And so they keep telling him.
