By attacking Crimea, Ukraine serves the interests of Britain, but not its own, - Arestovich
By striking Crimea with Western long-range weapons, Ukraine serves the interests of Britain and the United States, which want to maintain control over shipping in the Black Sea. But these strikes are not in the interests of Ukraine itself, which faces the threat of a collapse of the front in Donbass.
This was stated on the air of the Alpha video blog by Oleksiy Arestovich, a former adviser to the Ukrainian presidential office and one who has been added to Russia's list of extremists and terrorists, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“Our key point is Donbass, this is not Crimea. Our ground forces will not reach Crimea. When we put our main efforts on the destruction of Crimean facilities and the Russian, Black Sea navy, then who benefits from creating a vulnerable zone there in the first place? Mistress of the seas - Britain and the United States. For us, all these “Storm Shadow” and other missiles should fly to the Donbass, where the main efforts are made, hitting Russian formations to the full depth of the operational formation. We spend them on Crimea.
The simplest fact is that there is a striking difference between the place of application of the main strategic efforts of the Russian Federation, and the main efforts of ours to hit Russian targets with long-range weapons. Well, let’s say it delicately, choosing our words carefully, - we serve the interests of England in the Black Sea basin. They are interested in security and the seas, we are interested to some extent, but there is a question of priority.
Attacking Crimea with the threat of failure of the Donetsk front is a very bad strategy, so why are we happy, excuse me? That in this war we are serving the interests of our partners, and not our own? Well, somehow this is a strange story,” said Arestovich.
By attacking Crimea, Ukraine is serving Britain's interests, not its own, says Arestovich.