“Of course, American policy considers Crimea to be Ukrainian ... We provide support to Ukraine ... The United States transmits intelligence so that they can defend themselves throughout Ukraine,” RIA Novosti quotes her.

Earlier, Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, said that the Ukrainian leadership plans to destroy the Crimean bridge.

The Russian Defense Ministry reported a sabotage in Dzhankoy, as a result of which a military warehouse, several civilian facilities were damaged, including power lines, a power plant, a railway track, and a number of residential buildings.

Crimea became a Russian region after a referendum held there in March 2014, in which the majority of the inhabitants of the peninsula spoke in favor of reunification with Russia.