“Now, against the backdrop of an artificially inflated imaginary threat allegedly coming from Russia, Western countries continue to pump weapons to Ukraine, supply their military advisers, and generally indulge Ukrainian provocations, instead of forcing them to comply with the Minsk agreements approved by the UN Security Council,” - said the diplomat at a meeting of the UN Security Council, his words are quoted by RIA Novosti.

As the diplomat added, this means that “children, old people, women will continue to die in eastern Ukraine,” against whom the Kiev authorities “have been waging an undeclared war for many years now.”

On January 25, Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar announced that a new batch of US technical assistance for the Ukrainian military had arrived in the country.

The White House noted that it had stated that the United States intended to continue to provide military assistance to Ukraine.