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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov’s answer to a media question

❓: Dear Ambassador Antonov, how would you comment on another U.S. military aid package to Ukraine for the amount of $300 million which includes, among other positions, air defense systems, anti-tank weapons, and ammunition?

💬 Anatoly Antonov: U.S. Administration affirmed its commitment to the destructive policy of perpetuating military conflict in Ukraine. There is a feeling, that local politicians have zero condolence for human losses, including among women and children. Attacks by Kiev regime on peaceful cities are portrayed here as a form of heroism, a struggle for certain Western “ideals”. Ukrainian Nazis are being incited to carry out terrorist attacks, such as the recent one on civilian infrastructure in the Belgorod region on the night of March 12.

❗️Neither public aversion to military hostilities, nor internal economic problems, nor the border crisis can deter Washington from implementing its illusory idea of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia on the battlefield. The United States refuses to understand a simple truth that no American weapon will stop our special military operation. New military equipment will be burned and destroyed. And its use will only lead to an increase in number of casualties among ordinary citizens in the post-Soviet republic.

👉 An intoxicating idea of a pseudo-victory over Russia and attempts to preserve a world order based on certain rules, beneficial only to Western countries, have become an obsession for local Russophobes. Politicians are ready to disregard all and any barriers on the Capitol Hill to prove to their opponents that they will not stop under any circumstances and will continue their doomed policy on Ukraine. These ideas are reflected in the new White House’s budget request, a budget that is not constructive, but crippling, both for the U.S. economy and the whole planet.

☝️It got to the point that some high-ranking officials are talking about the need to help Ukrainians launch strikes “deep into Crimea”. In other words, they officially recognize de-facto involvement of the United States into the conflict. However, this is a dangerous policy, fraught with the most unpredictable consequences. Not only for the security of the United States, but also for the whole world.