© Getty Images / Justin Sullivan / StaffRussian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov. The US is using Ukrainians as proxy fighters in a dead-end project, Ambassador Anatoly Antonov has warned.
He further warned that the White House will face serious consequences if it removes restrictions on Kiev using Western missiles to conduct long range strikes inside Russia.
Moscow considers the Ukraine conflict to be a US-led proxy war against Russia in which Ukrainian soldiers are used as "cannon fodder." No amount of military hardware donated to Kiev will allow it to prevail militarily, the ambassador said.
"The American 'Ukraine project' has brought destruction and entailed huge sacrifices of the Slavic people," Antonov added.
Comment: It is notable how Slavic peoples, and Russia in particular, has been subject to attack from various quarters throughout history: Big Pharma tested 'secret bioweapon targeting Slavic DNA in Mariupol, Ukraine', video tour shows biowarfare laboratory
"There is no doubt that Russia will cope with the new challenge to its security and the goals and objectives of the special military operation will be fully implemented."
Antonov was commenting on the recent trip to the US by senior officials from Kiev, including Andrey Yermak, the chief of staff of Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky, and Defense Minister Rustem Umerov. According to media reports, they presented the Americans with a list of targets in Russia that they want to attack with Western long-range weapons.
"Washington's idea of pitting Europe against Russia through the Ukrainian crisis will not pass," Antonov said. "The US will not be able to sit it out across the ocean if the current situation escalates into a global conflict."
Kiev argues that the lack of permission by its weapons donors to conduct long-range strikes puts Ukrainian troops at a disadvantage on the front line. Moscow has warned that it would supply similar military capabilities to enemies of the West if these types of attacks ever happen. The potential escalation would not be limited to the European continent, Antonov warned.
Comment: Indeed, and at the time propaganda media portrayed this as a bit of an empty threat. In the same way that Russia has warned of consequences before, but an obvious retaliation never seemed to manifest. Except this time Russia made it abundantly clear that its response was to 'strengthen' ties with countries like Yemen, and Iran, seriously compromising the establishment's other warfront in the Middle East.
Unlike the UK and France, which donated air-launched long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine, the US has delivered a small number of ground-launched ballistic weapons, which are easier to deploy close to the border through stealth. Kiev has used some of the ATACMS missiles to attack targets in Russia's Crimea, which the US considers Ukrainian territory.
A Ukrainian MP visiting Washington told CNN that strikes deep inside Russia would be no different from striking Russian border areas, which the US government allowed Kiev to do in late May, because "both are Russian territory."
American officials have made it clear to the Ukrainians that they would not get "another significant delivery of ATACMS due to the finite number in US inventories," the network reported. Many of the targets chosen by Kiev are not even within ATACMS range, sources told CNN.
Comment: Sputnik reports: It appears that, in response to the West-Israel's repeated escalations, Russia is taking a much firmer diplomatic stance; as is China, for that matter: