He Kremlin This Monday, he accused the United States of add fuel to the fire of the war in Ukraine by authorizing, as reported by the Western press, long-range missile attacks against Russian territory through kyiv.
“It is clear that the outgoing administration in the United States intends to continue to add fuel to the fire and continue to cause an escalation of tensions about this conflict,” he said. Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesperson, during his daily telephone press conference.
He stressed that if it is confirmed that the West has given the green light to kyiv, this will mean “qualitatively a new phase of tension and a new situation regarding American involvement“in the war conflict.
As reported this Sunday in the newspapers New York Times And The Washington Post, Biden authorized Ukraine to use long-range US weaponse for limited attacks on Russian territory.
Biden’s authorization responds, according to media reports, to the deployment of North Korean soldiers, 10,000 according to American intelligence, in the Russian border region of Kursk, partially occupied by Ukrainian troops since August.
The authorized weapons are specifically guided supersonic missiles called ATACMS which can carry conventional or fragmentation warheads and have a range of approximately 300 kilometers.
The President of the Duma or Chamber of Deputies of Russia, Viacheslav Volodin, warned, for his part, this Monday, that the Western authorization granted to Ukraine to use long-range missiles “will only worsen the fate and future of Ukraine.”
“As for such weapons, they are already in use. Expanding their use will of course lead to damage, but it will not change the situation on the battlefield,” Volodin wrote on his Telegram channel.
In addition, he believed that “this would definitely destroy Russian-American relations.” “If that happens, then Russia will be forced to respond. This is a matter for the Ministry of Defense. But it is clear that there will be some,” he stressed.
Volodin did not exclude that Moscow turns to ‘new weapons systems’ which Russia has not yet used on Ukrainian territory. “We understand that the next step could be a response from the United States. And then inevitably our response. “That’s called escalation,” he said.
He added that “it gives the impression” that Biden “dreams of eternity and wants to take the entire United States with him. And maybe even the world!”
Along the same lines, the action taken by the United States also led several Russian politicians to declare that Biden took a “big step towards World War III.”
“This is a big step towards the start of World War III,” he said. Vladimir Djabarovvice-chairman of the upper house’s foreign affairs committee and retired general of the security services, loyal to Putin.
Furthermore, Russian lawmaker Maria Butina also assured that Biden, with his new decision on long-range missiles, “risks a third world war”.
A possible negotiation
On the other hand, the White House He assured this Monday that his strategy concerning a possible negotiation between Ukraine and Russia is bring Kyiv to “the strongest possible position” and assured that it was Moscow, and not Washington, which favored an escalation of the conflict.
“Our policy has been to put (Ukraine) in the strongest position possible both throughout this administration and after the 2022 invasion,” Biden adviser Jon Finer said during a meeting with the press in Rio de Janeiro during the G20 summit. .
Finer made these comments in relation to a possible negotiation between Ukraine and Russia, to which Kyiv could be forcedor with the coming to power of the elected president in January, Donald Trump, who promised to end the conflict in “24 hours”, without specifying how.
According to him, only Ukraine’s determination to negotiate with Russia and “there is nothing contradictory” in the decision of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, speaking last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time in two years.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized the conversation for bringing Putin out of isolation and opening a “Pandora’s Box.”
“The United States is coordinating closely with its allies, particularly with Germany, obviously on issues related to Ukraine. Regarding the negotiations, this is not an issue that is the responsibility of the United States or of Germany, but from the Ukrainian government,” explained the White House advisor.
