Washington does not object to the use of Western weapons by Kyiv in regions that may become part of Russia after the referendums. This was announced on Tuesday, September 27, by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken at a joint press conference with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in Washington.
According to him, the US administration does not intend to recognize the results of the referendums in the Donbass, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions. In this regard, Washington considers Kyiv’s possible attempts to regain territories justified.
“Both the weapons and military equipment that we and many other countries provide to them (to the Ukrainian authorities – Ed.) are very effectively used for precisely these purposes, as we have just seen in the north-east of Ukraine and as we see in the south” , – he said.
Blinken added that Ukraine will continue to do what is necessary to regain its territories, and Washington will support it.
Referendums in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR), as well as in Zaporozhye and Kherson regions on joining Russia started on September 23 and ended on September 27.
Earlier, on September 26, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that the United States was becoming increasingly anxious and aggressive in its confrontation with Russia.
On September 24, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Western countries are engaged in gross provocations and staging instead of having an honest dialogue and looking for compromises. According to him, the question of the future of the world order is now being decided. Russia in this struggle strives for peace without blackmail and threats to other countries.
Prior to that, on September 21, Putin drew attention to the fact that the United States, Great Britain and the European Union are pushing Ukraine to transfer military operations to Russian territory. He clarified that nuclear blackmail was also used by the West: some representatives of states talk about the admissibility of using nuclear weapons against Russia. Putin stressed that in the event of a threat to Russia, Moscow will use all the means at its disposal.
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