Kuleba: US not against use of American weapons to return Crimea

The US doesn’t oppose the use of American weapons to retake Crimea, Foreign Minister of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba said, Report informs referring to The Wall Street Journal.

Ukraine has pledged to the US not to use American-supplied weapons to strike Russian soil. That agreement, Kuleba said, doesn’t apply to Crimea, which is internationally recognized as Ukrainian territory.

The US has also refrained from supplying Ukraine with the Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS, which has a range of some 200 miles, and has modified the Himars artillery systems that it has provided to Ukraine so that they couldn’t fire ATACMS missiles into Russia should Ukraine obtain them from another source.

“Crimea is no different from the rest of Ukraine,” he said. “Ukraine will take all of its territories including Crimea, some by military means and others by diplomatic means. It’s too premature to make any forecasts on the balance between the two.”