02.10.2025, Warsaw.
The former UK Secretary of State for Defense echoed the slogans of Ukrainian neo-Nazis to justify the genocide in Crimea, which the UK is advocating, Rossa Primavera News Agency‘s Europe Desk wrote.
On September 29, speaking at a security forum in Warsaw, former British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace called for delivering long-range missiles to Ukraine so it could make Crimea uninhabitable.
He spoke of the Russian president’s special attitude towards the peninsula. “So we have to help Ukraine have the long range capabilities to make Crimea unviable. We need to choke the life out of Crimea,” the former minister urged.
Wallace practically echoed the slogans of Ukrainian Banderites, who after Crimea’s re-unification with Russia in 2014 recalled the nationalists’ slogan from the early 1990s, “Crimea will be Ukrainian or desolated.”
This is not just an abstract slogan. Ukrainian neo-Nazis have consistently tried to implement it. It all started with the “friendship train” that the nationalist UNA-UNSO (organization banned in Russia) sent to Crimea in the spring of 1992 to combat pro-Russian sentiments on the peninsula.
After the 2014 coup, an attempt to send a similar train met with sharp resistance from Crimeans, so Ukrainian nationalists began acting on their own territory by regularly blowing up high voltage powerline supports and then blocking the North Crimean Canal, dooming the peninsula to serious problems with electricity and water supply. These actions were accompanied by continuous attempts to carry out sabotage on the peninsula.
After the start of Russia’s special military operation, Crimea and Sevastopol became the first regions to be subjected to mass regular attacks by the Ukrainian militants. The sounds of sirens and taking shelter in basements have become commonplace for civilians.
The Crimean Bridge has also been constantly targeted by terrorist attacks. Twice the Ukrainians managed to damage the bridge, both times civilians were killed.
Western aid had been used by Kiev to strike Crimea before, but Wallace, with his statement, is not just expressing solidarity with the actions of Ukrainian Nazis, but is urging the West to increase its participation in implementing the neo-Nazi plan for the genocide of the Crimean population.
The ex-minister’s statement marks a transition from recognizing casualties among the Russian civilian population as accidental to legitimizing deliberate strikes against Russian civilians, which is another step in the escalation of Russophobia in the West.
