Washington Frames Terms of Ukraine Victory as Russia War Heats Up

‘We must continue to insist that Crimea is Ukraine, just as Donetsk and Luhansk are Ukraine, and just as every other part of the country is Ukraine,’ Blinken declares.

AP/Efrem Lukatsky, file
Ukrainian soldiers fire at Russian positions with a U.S.-supplied M777 howitzer in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, June 18, 2022. AP/Efrem Lukatsky, file

Tomorrow is Ukrainian Independence Day, and Secretary Blinken is now framing victory in the country’s war against Russia as a return of all Ukrainian territory to its rightful owners. “We must continue to insist that Crimea is Ukraine, just as Donetsk and Luhansk are Ukraine, and just as every other part of the country is Ukraine,” the secretary said

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