A U.S. official's comments about Crimea led to Russia accusing the United States of trying to escalate the war in Ukraine.
" that would result in an escalation of the war, which will reach the one-year mark on February 24.
Nuland"has admitted that the [Biden] administration is fueling the ambitions of the Kyiv regime to attack our country," Russia's Embassy in Washington, D.C., said in a statement."Inciting Kyiv criminals to attack Crimea is the same as pushing them to attack Moscow or Vladivostok." Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence, outside Moscow, on February 17, 2023. In inset, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing to examine U.S.-Russia policy at the U.S. Capitol on December 7, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Russian officials say Nuland’s comments on Crimea prove the U.S. is trying to escalate Putin’s war in Ukraine.
Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Russian-appointed governor of Sevastopol, wrote on his Telegram channel Friday that a Ukrainian drone was shot down over a thermal power plant in Balaklava, a town near Sevastopol. A day earlier, Razvozhayev claimed that Russian air defenses had downed two drones over Sevastopol.
Last month, Razvozhayev made similar claims on Telegram about air defenses destroying 10 drones over Sevastopol in what he referred to as a"failed Ukrainian attack."
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