Advisor to the Office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak in an interview with the Russian Voice Service on Friday repelled the reaction of official Kyiv to a message about the new package of military assistance from the United States.
In particular, he confirmed that Ukraine will receive reactive shells with a radius of defeat 150 km, but at the same time indicated the need to get shells with a radius of defeat 200-300 km.
“150 km solve the problems (liquidation of Russian) warehouses of the operational-tactical direction, and Crimea is located more than 200 km. The main strategic warehouses (army of the Russian Federation) are located there, and there is a key resource for supplying all (Russian) groups for Front lines, including both Donetsk and Lugansk regions, ”said Podolyak.
It was previously reported that Ukraine has undertaken not to strike deep into the territory of Russia. At the same time, Ukrainian forces have every right to hit targets on the territory of the annexed Crimea, Mikhail Podolyak emphasized.
“International law categorically: Donbass and Crimea are the territory of only Ukraine, and the Russian Federation does not have a legal presence there. Therefore, illegal authorities and military bases can be destroyed within the framework of international law than we will do,” he summed up.
Earlier, the deputy chairman of the Council of Security of Russia Dmitry Medvedev said that in the event of strikes on the Crimea and deep into Russia (the Armed Forces of Ukraine), the answer will be “quick, tough and convincing”: “Russia does not put any restrictions on the form of an answer to the attack, in depending on the nature of the threats is ready to use all types of weapons. If Ukraine tries to strike the Crimea, there will be impacts of retaliation, all that remained under the rule of Kyiv Ukraine will dust. Those who reason that sending weapons to the West to the West will contribute to the start of negotiations, are wrong, the result will be directly The opposite, ”Medvedev said.