U.S. Goal in Ukraine: Drive Russians Back to Pre-Invasion Lines, Blinken Says
Kyiv must decide itself later whether to try to reclaim Crimea and Donbas
Ukraine has insisted from the outset of the war that it will recapture all of the territory it has lost to Russia, including parts of the Donbas region controlled by Moscow since 2014 and Crimea, annexed the same year.
“Russia began its crazy aggression in 2014 specifically from Crimea. It was the prologue to full-scale war,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the Crimea Platform summit in Zagreb on Oct. 25.
“Russia’s aggression potential will be destroyed at the root when the Ukrainian flag is once again in its lawful spot: in the towns and villages of Crimea.”
WSJ 6 December 2022
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