The observer believes that the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine occurred due to a mistake in Washington's foreign policy, where they decided to start expanding the North Atlantic Alliance to the east.

The article says that the Biden administration, in fact, calls on Kyiv to continue hostilities, but does not believe that the Ukrainian side has a chance to defeat Russia.

Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke about US pressure on the possibility of negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, in an interview with RT, said that the biggest strategic miscalculation of Western countries was the desire to inflict a “strategic defeat” on Russia in Ukraine.

According to him, Russia will never be defeated.