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Ukraine-Russian War - World War III.2 - 2023

Ukraine’s strategy includes the destruction of the air defense of the Crimea peninsula temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation, the destruction of military infrastructure and driving the aggressor country away from the territorial waters of interest to Kyiv. The ultimate goal is to cut off the peninsula from mainland Russia and prepare for the process of de-occupation. Advisor to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine (OPU), Mykhailo Podolyak, stated this 17 September 2023 on the FREEDOM TV channel.

“Russia entered Crimea in 2014 solely to gain the opportunity to turn it into a large military base. Of course, they did not invest money in the development of industry, tourism, and recreation. What is Ukraine doing? Returns the peninsula to the state in which it should be, that is, to a civil state,” he said.

According to him, attacks on military infrastructure are an objective development of the war that Russia unleashed. “The main supply of the occupation group goes through the Crimea peninsula. Without solving the supply problem, we will have heavy and protracted battles along the front line as a whole. And now there is the destruction of transport routes that pass through the Kerch Strait, and the destruction of storage facilities located in Crimea,” he noted. And, accordingly, the destruction of radar control systems for the airspace over Crimea, air defense systems, for example, the Russian S-400 Triumph complexes.

This allows us to open the skies over Crimea and more effectively strike military infrastructure. In turn, the Black Sea waters are a deeper task, much more important, which should show the inconsistency of Russia in terms of attempts to monopoly military control over the Black Sea waters. The failure of Russia’s attempt to transform the Black Sea into a water area of internal jurisdiction. Ukraine effectively uses maritime technologies, maritime drones, to show the futility of Russia,” he says.

Podolyak emphasized that Kyiv’s work in this direction continues. “Here, in order to solve three problems: open the skies over Crimea, destroy the infrastructure, in particular the transport and main supply infrastructure from continental Russia, and at the same time drive them away from territorial waters, which are of interest to Ukraine in full, and then all operations in Crimea will be carried out . The ultimate goal is obvious – to cut off Crimea from continental Russia, so that Russia stops using it as the main supply base, to prepare the necessary de-occupation measures, which our military-political leadership constantly talks about,” concluded Mykhailo Podolyak.

"The countries that are part of the pro-Ukrainian coalition have always thought that wars of this type, which we see today in Ukraine, are impossible by definition. That this type of war is unacceptable in the 21st century. It’s hard for them to give up this, let’s say, humanistic inner feeling that the world should still move through dialogue forms. ... They increasingly understand the main thing: the Russian Federation is not a country with which you can sit down and talk about something. The Russian Federation came precisely to kill.... Our partners now understand that we need to provide protection tools. These are not tools for killing people you meet, no, these are tools for protecting your families, your homes, your territories." Advisor to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine (OPU) Mykhailo Podolyak said 23 October 2023.