NSDC Secretary Oleksiy Danilov hinted in an interview that Ukraine has weapons to strike at military targets in Russia. This statement may indicate the evolution of understanding of the situation and rhetoric in the West.
Thus, the world has understood that Russia is raising the stakes in the war and is not ready to negotiate. At the same time, he sets conditions that are unacceptable either for Ukraine or for civilized countries. About thisChannel 24said political scientist Oleg Sahakyan.
Why Danilov made such a statement right now
For almost a year of the war, the idea of the possibility of striking military targets on the territory Russia in the West has evolved. Today, it is not perceived as something unacceptable, but passes as ordinary news.
Sahakyan noted that the Ukrainian authorities were waiting for all the key international players – our partners – to declare that our state has a legitimate right to hit military targets on the territory of Russia. What is important,it is about the use of Ukrainian weaponsfor this purpose. And after that, our state can make a corresponding statement.
The key reason why we are talking about this now is that we have Ukrainian (weapons – Channel 24) to reach there (before military facilities in Russia – Channel 24), and not with the weapons of our partners, the political scientist explained.
This is also consistent with the statement of the head of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Oleksiy Reznikov, that Ukraine will not use Western weapons to strike Russian territory. However, we have Ukrainian and we can use it. At the same time, the weapons of our allies, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, will destroy the Russian invaders exclusively on the territory of our state.
Sahakyan explained why Danilov made the corresponding statement right now: watch the video
Ukraine has clearly recorded this right
Sahakyan recalled that recently even Western strikes on the territory of the occupied Crimea were considered something unattainable. However, this has now changed and there are statements from the United States that they support Ukraine's right to destroy invaders in all its territories, including those occupied since 2014.
“This is also a certain process of evolution in the West. The Ukrainian authorities at each of these stages try to fix it for the internal media environment, and also place certain important accents for Western audiences. In this case, they fixed and emphasized: “We can beat, but not weapons provided by partners“, the political scientist said.
There are no warnings for the Armed Forces of Ukraine regarding strikes against Russia
“Russian invaders continue to terrorize the civilian Ukrainian population, striking with missiles and drones. NSDC Secretary Oleksiy Danilov noted that there are no reservations regarding retaliatory strikes on Russian territory. Our defenders can attack military targets on Russian territory.
I don't understand where the data comes from that we cannot hit military targets. We are not Russians, and we do not destroy critical infrastructure facilities, hospitals, kindergartens, schools,” Danilov said.
According to him, if our defenders work, they will only be military facilities that are directly related to the processes taking place at the front.
