“Ukrainian authorities are not only pleading with Washington for additional military assistance, but are also trying to provoke a direct military clash between Russia and NATO,” he said in an interview with Newsweek.
Antonov recalled that Kyiv still has not officially recognized that the rocket that fell on the territory of Poland belonged to Ukraine.
In the United States and NATO, in turn, although they have found out the causes of the incident, they still continue to talk about Russia's responsibility.
According to the Russian ambassador, such an approach by the West can only provoke Ukraine, which already "feels permissiveness."
Earlier, columnist Andrew Koribko accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of trying to deceive the third world war.