Saturday, July 05, 2025

Why Crimea must not be left to Russia

Translating from DonPress, Apr 21, 2025:

"The Crimean Peninsula, which is currently occupied by the Russian Federation, must not be left to the Kremlin, because this would mean the aggressor's complete dominance in the Black Sea. This was stated by the head of the Institute of Black Sea Strategic Studies Andrey Klimenko. 

""Russian" Crimea means the complete dominance of the Russian Federation in the Black Sea and in the corresponding region. This will never happen after the shameful defeat of the Russian Black Sea Fleet by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The optimal use of the Crimean peninsula in the new European security system is the creation of a comprehensive military base of European countries on the peninsula - naval, anti-missile, anti-sabotage, etc.," the specialist notes. 

According to him, such a base can act as an outpost to contain Russian aggression from the south-east. 

"And that is how it will ultimately be," Klimenko emphasized. 

He added that now the topic of concessions on Crimea in favor of the Russian Federation has arisen among some "alternatively gifted individuals overseas." Klimenko notes that such statements can only be made by people who did not study geography at school and are not real politicians."

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