“We must be careful to push Ukraine towards a certain result. Maybe at some point they will change their vision,” he said.
The head of the Czech Republic added that the West should also be careful when seeking to defeat Russia in order to avoid undesirable scenarios of such a defeat.
The day before, Adam Smith, a senior Democrat on the US House Armed Services Committee, announced a consensus that Ukraine would not try to return Crimea by force. At the same time, he did not rule out that the kyiv authorities themselves decide to seize this territory.
Earlier, US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said that Washington supports kyiv’s attacks on military targets in Crimea. And the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, noted that by doing so, the United States is putting pressure on Ukraine to further escalate the conflict.
