“You won’t be able to kneel”: Antonov announced US goals to harm Russia and “fight to the last Ukrainian”

By supplying weapons to Kyiv, Washington seeks by any means to delay the Russian special military operation in Ukraine, inflict maximum damage on Russia "and fight to the last Ukrainian," said Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov.

Thus, he commented on media reports that the White House is asking Congress for additional appropriations to ensure an uninterrupted flow of weapons to Ukraine.

Total military aid to Kyiv since the Joe Biden administration came to power has already exceeded $4 billion, Antonov said.

“Perhaps it would be better to use these funds for ordinary Americans who are hit by record inflation?”

- says Antonov's comment, distributed by the press service of the Russian Embassy in the United States.

As the diplomat emphasized, Washington wants to preserve "a hotbed of instability in Europe" and thereby rally Western allies around itself in order to "keep the position of the United States on the world stage."

“Nevertheless, the world is moving towards multipolarity.

This fact cannot be ignored,” Antonov noted.

The Russian ambassador also said that the conflict in Ukraine and the "image of Russia as an external threat" are actively exploited by the American ruling circles in order to divert the attention of the population from "their own failures in public administration and the growing coma of political and socio-economic problems in the United States."

“All this suggests that the Ukrainian conflict was deliberately provoked by the West.

The neighboring country is being used as a military ram against us.

Russia cannot be brought to its knees.

Illusory Western projects are a thing of the past.

It’s time to understand this and respect Russian national interests,” Antonov emphasized.

American supplies

Recall, on April 21, US President Joe Biden announced the allocation of an additional $800 million military aid package to Ukraine.

“Today I am announcing the allocation of another $800 million to further strengthen Ukraine’s ability to conduct military operations in the east (countries.

) - in the Donbass,” the head of the White House said.

- The package includes (providing.

) heavy artillery weapons - dozens of howitzers and 144 thousand pieces of ammunition for them, as well as an additional number of tactical drones.

As Biden noted, in the past two months, the United States has been transferring weapons and equipment to Ukraine "at a record speed."

“We sent thousands of anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles, helicopters, drones, grenade launchers, machine guns, rifles and radar systems.

More than 50 million pieces of ammunition have already been sent,” he said.

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However, Biden said he has "nearly exhausted the authority" to provide assistance to Ukraine, approved by Congress last month "as part of a bipartisan spending legislative initiative."

“In order to support Ukraine throughout this struggle, next week I will have to send a request to Congress for additional appropriations to continue to uninterruptedly supply the brave Ukrainian fighters with weapons and ammunition and provide economic assistance to the Ukrainian people,” the American leader said, expressing the hope that Congress "will act quickly."

In addition, Biden recalled that he had previously approved a similar $800 million security assistance package to Ukraine, which, he said, included artillery systems and armored personnel carriers.

Later, Moscow sent a note to Washington demanding to stop supplying weapons to Kyiv.

As Anatoly Antonov noted then, this does not contribute to "the search for a diplomatic solution, the settlement of the situation."

However, according to the Pentagon, US Air Force pilots are already preparing a cargo of ammunition (including Stinger anti-aircraft systems and Javelin anti-tank missile systems) that is planned to be delivered to Ukraine.

As Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Channel One, Western weapons supplied to Kyiv, including Javelin complexes, could fall into the hands of terrorists and thus return to Western states.

“Javelin is also a portable thing that…was invented for tanks, but it can also be used to carry out terrorist attacks in practice.

Where does it all go?!

Lavrov said.

- Previous experience shows that from Ukraine, as well as from any other poorly controlled country, especially Ukraine, where the neo-Nazi battalions "Azov" and others, "Aidar" and other units that are not subordinate to the Supreme Commander and these, in general, flaunt, and occupy a special autonomous untouchable place in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, well, this weaponry will spread, including to the countries from where it is now supplied to Ukraine.

"became a black hole"

As Konstantin Blokhin, a leading researcher at the Center for Security Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, noted, the United States continues to pump weapons into Ukraine, "despite numerous costs."

“It is clear that now Ukraine has become such a black hole for the supply of American and Western weapons in general.

These weapons may appear in some time in completely different parts of the world, including in the West.

Corruption in Ukraine has not been canceled, a significant part of the US weapons goes to the black market.

The Ukrainian military themselves have the opportunity to sell weapons and profit from it, not to mention looters, criminals and terrorist elements, ”the expert said in a conversation with RT.

At the same time, Blokhin believes that, despite all this, the US Congress will approve additional appropriations for the White House to ensure the uninterrupted supply of weapons to Ukraine.

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“In the United States, Biden is criticized for not helping Ukraine so radically, for allegedly showing his weakness.

Therefore, the American leader constantly makes statements about how Washington is helping Kyiv and creating problems for the Kremlin.

I think that Biden will not have any difficulties with Congress, ”the analyst is sure.

According to Blokhin, the United States will indeed try to drag out the conflict in Ukraine in order to achieve further negative consequences for Russia.

“Washington for many years created an outpost from Ukrainian territory to fight the Russian Federation.

The United States will not give up on this idea.

They will continue to stuff Ukraine with weapons, and to an even greater extent.

Ukraine is viewed by the American elite as a strategic asset that they want to use against Russia,” the expert said.

According to political scientist Alexander Asafov, the validity of the words of the Russian ambassador about the US intention to "conduct military operations to the last Ukrainian" is confirmed by the ongoing supply of American weapons to Ukraine.

“The heads of the State Department and the Pentagon during their visit to Kyiv only confirmed such intentions.

There was no question of any diplomatic settlement of the conflict, ”the expert noted.

According to Asafov, despite the fact that American weapons from Ukraine "frequently migrate" to other parts of the world, including the West, Washington "takes this risk deliberately."

“The continuation of the conflict in Ukraine for the United States is much more important than this kind of cost.

The United States directly says that the main task of Washington is the depletion of the Russian Armed Forces, countering Russia.

And in this context, the risks that weapons fall into the hands of marauders, criminals, militants and Nazis do not bother them.

They don’t even care about the fact that these weapons can be used against American soldiers when they are sold to other countries, ”the analyst stated.

According to Asafov, Washington's military support for Kyiv is part of a large-scale US campaign against Russia for unfair competition in the arms market, hydrocarbons and in the sphere of political influence on other countries.

“The United States is taking all possible measures here to weaken the positions of the Russian Federation in all these areas,” the expert noted.

Asafov also explained that the United States needs the conflict in Ukraine, among other things, in order to “disguise its internal problems.”

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“After all, the population needs to somehow explain the colossal inflation.

If earlier, in response to journalists' questions about the fall of the American economy, Biden sent them to hell, now he boldly and bravely declares that Russia and its special operation in Ukraine are allegedly to blame for these problems, ”said the expert.

However, according to Asafov, the current and future deliveries of American weapons cannot change the course of hostilities on Ukrainian territory.

“Given that Russia is inflicting precision strikes on storage sites and logistics hubs for such supplies, these US weapons will not have a significant impact on the course of the special operation,” the analyst concluded.