Ukraine, in the nine years since the coup d'état, has become "a testing ground for Washington and NATO to test their weapons and test new ways of waging war," said State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin.

“They do not consider losses: Ukrainians are used as consumables.

There are American instructors, mercenaries.

To save the Kyiv regime began to supply heavy weapons.

All this indicates the direct participation of Washington in the hostilities, the fear of losing their colony.

A special military operation has become a liberation for the citizens of Ukraine and Slavic lands from the American colonialists, ”he wrote in his Telegram channel.

At the same time, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov called paradoxical the assertions of American officials that the supply of tanks and other heavy weapons to the Kyiv regime is not an escalation of the conflict.

“In general, there have been a lot of direct quotations from Orwell recently in the statements of both American and NATO representatives.

“Peace is war” is literally what is said every day from high stands and from high offices in the West... So now, after the decision to send Abrams tanks in significant numbers, arguments begin that this is not an escalation.

Denial of the obvious,” he said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

In his opinion, Washington took an "extremely destructive step", which could lead to an escalation of the situation in Ukraine.

“The Americans took this step in order to again trim the all-NATO rank, their system, to carry out the calculation “for the first or second”.

All this is being implemented in this form before the eyes of the international community, which, as I understand it, is experiencing growing concern about where this Western group of irresponsible, if not insane, politicians or politicians is pushing the world, ”said the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation.

Recall, on January 25, Joe Biden announced that the United States would supply Kyiv with 31 Abrams tanks.

According to White House National Security Council strategic communications coordinator John Kirby, the transfer of American tanks to the Kyiv regime will take "many months."

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Meanwhile, the chairman of the military committee of the alliance, Admiral Rob Bauer, said in an interview with the Portuguese edition of RTP that the North Atlantic Alliance was ready for a direct confrontation with Russia.

In his opinion, Moscow's strategic goals go beyond Ukraine.

Allegedly, the Russian leadership intends to return to the borders of the USSR.

In this regard, he noted that the industrial production of the NATO countries should be reoriented to the military sphere with an emphasis on rearmament.

“NATO countries have been confident for decades that they have the initiative.

We were the ones who decided to go to Afghanistan, to go to Iraq - and these decisions came from the NATO countries.

We owned the initiative, we dictated when we would go, with how many forces, for how long, and so on.

Now we are facing a threat in the face of Russia - she comes to us without an invitation at any moment of her choice, ”said Bauer, whose words are quoted by Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

Earlier, German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock admitted at a PACE meeting in Strasbourg that European countries "wage war against Russia."

In turn, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called on the leaders of Western countries to stop lying to their own citizens.

“Citizens of NATO countries should know that their bloc is completely embroiled in a confrontation with our country, and this confrontation is on the rise,” she said during a weekly briefing.

At the same time, the publication Politico claims that a discussion is gaining momentum in the US Department of Defense around the possible supply of combat aircraft to Kyiv.

Recall that on January 24, the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Dmitry Kuleba, said that “some European colleagues” allegedly already “took into work” the issue of providing Kyiv with American F-16 fighters.

“A group of military representatives quietly persuade the Pentagon to approve the sending of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine,” the publication says.

It is noted that it may take weeks to make a decision, we are talking about either the transfer of fighters from the US Air Force, or their re-export from third countries.

Earlier, the leader of the French Patriots party, Florian Filippo, was indignant at the request of Vladimir Zelensky to the West to transfer long-range aircraft and missiles to Ukraine: “How much longer will we follow this madman?

Before a nuclear world war?