“The American president does not so much want peace in Ukraine as starting a “war of attrition” there that would bleed Russia dry and divide Europe again into irreconcilable “western” and “eastern” parts,” he said in an interview with L'Antidiplomatico.
Bertolini pointed to the sharp contrast between the position of the American leader and the aspirations of Moscow, where they were initially set on a speedy settlement of the situation in Ukraine.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, previously announced the direct involvement of the United States in the Ukrainian conflict.
On September 12, Mark Warner, chairman of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, said the United States was passing intelligence to the Ukrainian military for a "counteroffensive."
The Pentagon did not comment on this information, but admitted that Washington has contacts with Kyiv on many levels.