Reznikov: Crimea must be liberated for the shipping safety

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Oleksiy Reznikov, emphasized the need to de-occupy the Crimean peninsula in order to guarantee safety and freedom of navigation in the Black and Azov seas.

“Crimea must be liberated to ensure 100 percent security and freedom of navigation in the Black and Azov seas. And he will be released. Crimea will once again return to the Ukrainian family, as it was in 1991. Crimea is Ukraine,”  Interfax-Ukraine quoted the minister as saying.

Reznikov also emphasized the importance of freedom of navigation in the Black and Azov seas, which leads to “food security” for the world and economic security for Ukraine.

Among other things, Reznikov reported on meetings with representatives of the military-industrial complex of Romania, which “produces some interesting things that Ukraine needs.”