“Today, the Americans are not in the mood to resolve the situation that has developed on Ukrainian territory through diplomacy,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying on the air of the Big Game program on Channel One.
Antonov stressed that Washington is determined to further arm the Kyiv regime.
“Moreover, today, it seems to me, we are talking about maintaining a controlled heat in hostilities on Ukrainian territory,” the ambassador added.
Earlier, the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, said that the West is expanding the volume of offensive weapons supplied to Kyiv.
The Russian delegation at the plenary session of the UN Conference on Disarmament stated that the supply of weapons by the West to the Kyiv regime, used to shell Russian civilians in the Donbass, creates real risks of a direct conflict between nuclear powers.