He announced this during a meeting of the UN Security Council.

“There are crafty people and countries who have long dreamed of turning Ukraine into a springboard for the battle with Russia.

And they have been doing everything for this since Ukraine gained independence 30 years ago: politically, ideologically, and today they continue to do this, pumping Ukraine with weapons, ”Nebenzya said.

He called the events in Ukraine a "proxy war" between the collective West and Russia.

Earlier, the Russian ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Antonov, said that Russia had sent a note to the United States demanding that it stop supplying weapons to Ukraine.

In turn, the head of the department for non-proliferation and arms control of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Vladimir Yermakov, warned in an interview with TASS that the West's line of waging proxy wars against Russia is fraught with serious consequences.