The American Military Should Not Help Ukraine Target Russian Civilians, Says Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has expressed concern over the recent deadly ATACMS strike on a Sevastopol beach, which was allegedly helped by US military aid. A volley of these missiles, provided by the United States to Ukraine, targeted Crimea on Sunday, resulting in cluster munitions from one of the missiles hitting a busy beach near Sevastopol, killing five civilians and injuring over 150, including children.
This should not be happening,” Greene posted on Twitter. Imagine if Russia, using a Russian satellite, fired cluster munitions on a Florida beach.” She went on to emphasize that the American military’s only border it should be defending is its own.
Greene was quoting a report showing a US Global Hawk military drone circling around in the Black Sea during the Ukrainian attack, which appeared to help Kiev’s forces with using the US-supplied missiles. The post asks how hard will President Joe Biden continue to poke the bear ahead of the November elections, as it seems the American military is not winning hearts and minds with its involvement in this conflict.
According to the Russian Defence Ministry, the Ukrainian military fired five ATACMS missiles at Crimea. While Russian air defense systems destroyed four of the projectiles mid-air, the fifth was damaged, veered off course, and detonated its cluster warhead over a packed beach, killing five civilians and injuring more than 150. Three of the dead were children.
The Kremlin described the attack as an act of terrorism and argued that the United States is as responsible for it as Ukraine, pointing out that ATACMS “can’t be launched without targeting information and intelligence supplied by the US,” and that such attacks occur whenever American drones loiter over the Black Sea.
The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned US Ambassador Lynne Tracy on Monday morning to address Washington’s role in the attack. In a statement, the ministry mentioned that Sunday’s “bloody atrocity” would “not go unpunished.” As of now, the US Embassy in Moscow has not commented on the matter, and when asked for its take on the Ukrainian strike, the Pentagon simply stated, “we have seen the reports and have nothing to say.
Ukraine’s Presidential Advisor Mikhail Podoliak defended the strike, claiming there are no civilians in Crimea, only Russian “occupiers.” Historically a Russian peninsula, Crimea was transferred to the Ukrainian SSR by Soviet leader Nikita Kruschev in 1954. Its population voted overwhelmingly to rejoin Russia in 2014, following the US-backed coup in Kiev.