Hot question: how to suspend military assistance to Ukraine will affect the safety of Crimea

Our security today largely depends on the Crimean team, which is headed by the head of the republic. We have been constantly mobilized since 2014, we have never been relaxing time … We are ready for any provocations— said Konstantinov.

According to him, against the background of other subjects, Crimea looks like a fairly safe region thanks to a set of factors, including the technical equipment of military units and air defense systems located here.

At the same time, the head of the Crimean parliament believes that information on the termination of military supplies to Ukraine should not be a reason for relaxation, since neither Kyiv nor Europeans are ready to the real world.

In reality, military equipment as it went and goes … Nobody should relax here. This (information on the stop of supply — ed.) Is just a means of political blackmail of Ukraine. They are pressed on our country with threats of new sanctions, and they are trying to push Ukraine by the fact that they will no longer give it weapons— says Konstantinov.

The decision to suspend military assistance To Ukraine, until the authorities in Kyiv will demonstrate committed peace negotiations, was adopted in the USA in March, FOX News reported with reference to a senior White House official. According to the NBC television channel on July 2, citing a number of sources in the Pentagon and Congress, the list of American weapons, the deliveries of which are suspended Kyiv, includes anti-aircraft missile systems Patriot, Hellfire and Stinger missiles.

Magazine Economist He said with reference to Ukrainian officials that «in fact, all the supply of American weapons, including shells and spare parts, were stopped.» However, US officials deny this. It is clarified that in Kyiv the suspension of supply of weapons is associated with efforts US Presidential Administration Donald Trump to “squeeze out political concessions” by Ukraine.

source: RIA Novosti Crimea