“I will not, like many conspiracy theorists, accuse the United States of unleashing a war in Ukraine in order to cash in on it, but the reality is that they benefit from it,” RIA Novosti quotes him.

Roux de Bezieu noted that gas and electricity prices in Europe skyrocketed amid the conflict in Ukraine, while in the US they remained stable.

Earlier, Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Sergei Ryabkov, on the air of the Russia 24 TV channel, noted that the Americans make good money on the situation around Ukraine.

The author of The American Conservative magazine, Patrick Buchanan, expressed the opinion that Washington could stop supplying weapons to Kyiv if it realized that the risks of an escalation of the conflict outweighed US interests.