Indebted US throwing billions at Ukraine conflict – Russia’s envoy

Washington has approved a new tranche of aid to Kiev on the day when its debt has reached a new milestone

Washington keeps throwing billions into the fire of the Ukraine conflict, despite its ballooning debt, Russia’s ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov has said.

The comments followed Monday’s announcement by the Pentagon that the US will send an additional $1.7 billion in military aid to Ukraine.

”Washington continues to burn colossal money in the furnace of the Ukraine conflict, and it does so in the face of record levels of US government debt,” the diplomat told journalists.

US national debt has reached a new milestone, surpassing the $35 trillion mark for the first time, the Treasury Department stated on Monday.

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“One can only imagine what good the resources pumped into the neo-Nazi and terrorist Kiev regime would do if they were spent on peaceful needs, on development, and on addressing the multiple social and economic issues” at home, mused Antonov.

The ambassador went on to argue that the ruling elite in Washington has no such plans, as it “stands firmly in the past” by insisting on preserving Ukraine within its 1991 borders, a Ukraine that “does not exist anymore,” and on inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia. The “1991 borders” refers to those which the former Soviet republic inherited following the collapse of the USSR.

Kiev and its Western backers demand that Moscow return territories that voted in referendums to join Russia, such as Crimea, the Donbass, along with Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. Moscow has repeatedly said that the demands were “detached from reality.”

American weapons are not capable of turning around the situation on the battlefield and will only prolong the conflict and lead to more casualties, including among civilians, Antonov warned.

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However, “a bunch of profiteers” who take advantage of the conflict and put their own interests above those of the people do not care, the ambassador concluded.

The Pentagon said on Monday that Washington has allocated a total of $56.1 billion to Kiev since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021.