Crimea and certainly are nowhere near Russian-held territory in eastern Ukraine. However, this week NBC News chief international correspondent Keir Simmons went to Sevastopol, surrounded by a significant Russian military presence given it is home to the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet, and in a live segment admitted that it's not at all realistic Zelensky and Ukrainian forces can ever hope to take Crimea.
This is especially as the "the people there... view themselves as Russian." Simmons
noted that "This is the closest that any US news crew has got to the
Russian Black Sea Fleet in many many years." He explained that "Vladimir
Putin will be determined to defend that port - to not have it take it
away from him - he may well do pretty much anything to try to achieve that."....When for example Victoria Nuland talks about that at the very least we [the US] want Crimea to be demilitarized, I find myself standing there and wondering, how on earth does that happen?" Zerohedge
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