“If Ukraine stops fighting, there will be no more Ukraine,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

Earlier, US President Joe Biden signed a law on the supply of weapons to Ukraine under Lend-Lease.

The document cancels certain restrictions on presidential powers to provide military assistance if it is intended for the Kyiv regime.

Director of US National Intelligence Avril Haynes said that the United States would not want to bring things to a third world war, supporting Ukraine, on whose territory Russia is conducting an operation to protect the Donbass.