State Department: US does not encourage Ukraine to strike outside Ukrainian territory

“As the president has said, we do not encourage Ukraine to strike outside its territory, and we do not encourage such strikes,” RIA Novosti quotes Price as saying at a briefing.

He noted that the United States did not supply Ukraine with weapons for strikes on Russian territory.

Earlier, Samuel Ramani, an American journalist and lecturer in international relations at Oxford University, said that the rhetoric of the US State Department suggests that Washington is unlikely to help Kyiv "return Crimea."