John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the White House National Security Council, said that the United States conducts command post exercises with Ukraine. Kirby said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his military command decide what they are going to do militarily.
At the same time, he added that Washington made it clear to Kyiv, both privately and publicly, that it "does not support attacks inside the territory of Russia" Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova noted that the "war of the West" in a hybrid format has been going on for a long time.