Washington is utilizing the battle between Moscow and Kiev to generate revenue for its firms, the Russian overseas minister has mentioned
Latest statements from the US counsel it regards Ukraine as nothing however a “profitable enterprise venture,” one which it’s taking advantage of, Russian Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov informed the UN Safety Council on Monday.
The minister was referring to earlier statements made by US State Secretary Antony Blinken. Final month, the highest US diplomat claimed that 90% of the cash allotted for Ukrainian assist finally ends up getting funneled again to the US “to the good thing about American enterprise, native communities, and strengthening the US protection industrial base.”
In November 2023, the Washington Publish additionally reported that almost all of those funds had been spent on manufacturing new weapons or changing the tools despatched to Ukraine out of American stockpiles.
The US is basically “growing its army industrial” advanced whereas “dumping the previous junk in Ukraine,” Lavrov mentioned. Russia’s prime diplomat additionally claimed that almost all main Ukrainian firms, together with lithium producers, are being bought to People and US firms have been capable of get their arms on Ukraine’s fertile land “on a budget.”
Lavrov denounced the statements made by US officers as “cynical” and mentioned that Washington has been treating the continuing battle “not as a battle that has already claimed lots of of hundreds of lives … however as a worthwhile enterprise venture.”
Moscow is waging a army marketing campaign not towards Ukraine however towards “a legal regime, presumptuous in its impunity,” he declared. Kiev has not forgone on the “battle towards its personal residents within the east and south” regardless of years-long efforts by Moscow to discover a peaceable resolution to this disaster, he defined, including that over 7 million Ukrainians had discovered refuge in Russia for the reason that 2014 Maidan coup.
Kiev’s Western backers have by no means tried to cease the federal government from persecuting Russian-speaking Ukrainians, the minister mentioned, accusing the US and its allies of utilizing the previous few years to “arm Ukraine and put together it for battle towards Russia,” whereas utilizing the Minsk Agreements as a canopy.
Russia is prepared for talks on Ukraine however it isn’t keen to debate methods to maintain Kiev’s present authorities in energy, Moscow’s prime diplomat concluded.
(RT.com)
