Ukraine’s Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, in his interview with Fox News, stated that the US permission for Ukrainian forces to strike deep into Russian territory could not escalate the war in Ukraine because Russia has already escalated the situation. “Russia has already escalated it. They (the occupiers) do not focus to the people, so they strike the hospitals, they strike the civilian places. We want to protect people. We wanna target only military targets. That is why we wanna change the lens to the functional, to protect our cities. Because they are hitting our cities, critical infrastruc…