KYIV, Jan 2 – Crimea and the associated part of the Black Sea can become the center of war, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.

Isolating Crimea, illegally annexed by Russia in 2014, and degrading Russia's military capabilities there "is extremely important to us because it is the way for us to reduce the number of attacks from that region," he said in an interview with The Economist published on Monday.