He said this on air on the Rossiya 24 TV channel.

“Europe has one position: look, it is being pushed deeper and deeper into the conflict,” RIA Novosti quotes the diplomat.

Gavrilov added that Washington is increasingly shifting responsibility for the continuation of the conflict, financing Kyiv and arms supplies onto Europe.

Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that Germany’s approval of a new €7 billion aid package to Ukraine indicates that the United States is forcing its wards to shell out even more.