'We heard from Western leaders that...if we come back to Crimea, there would be an unavoidable escalation,' Ukraine's official in Crimea, Tamila Tasheva, said.
held a virtual meeting with experts and said that Ukraine retaking Crimea would be a red line for Putin, as the Russian president considers the region as part of Russia and not Ukraine.
This photo taken on August 16, 2022, shows smoke billowing from a munitions depot in the village of Mayskoye, Crimea. Inset: Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with the Investigative Committee head Alexander Bastrykin in Saint Petersburg on October 9, 2022. On Wednesday, March 15, 2023, a Ukrainian official in Crimea said that Western leaders have changed their tone on Ukraine taking back Crimea.
"Crimea is our land, our territory, our sea, and our mountains. Give us your weapons and we will bring our land back," Zelensky said. While it is unclear which specific Western leaders Tasheva is speaking about, during a discussion last month at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, United States Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland said,"Russia has turned Crimea into a massive military installation...Ukraine is hitting them, and we are supporting that."
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