Moscow (EFE).- Russia considers that the US supply of cluster bombs to Ukraine is another step towards a new world war, while it recalled that in the past Washington said that the use of these explosive devices “is a crime of war”.
“Washington continues to raise the stakes in the conflict (…). The deep involvement of the United States in the conflict in Ukraine, even without cluster munitions, has never been in doubt,” wrote the Russian ambassador to Washington, Anatoli Antonov, on the Telegram account of the Russian embassy in the US.
“However, the current level of US provocations is truly off the scale and brings humanity closer to a new world war,” the ambassador said.
He stressed that the US “is so obsessed with the idea of defeating Russia that it does not realize the seriousness of its actions.”
In his opinion, with the military aid provided by the White House to Ukraine “they only cause more casualties and prolong the agony of the kyiv regime.”
“We firmly believe that Western weapons will in no way stand in the way of the goals of the special military operation aimed at eradicating threats to the security of the Russian Federation, including Nazism fueled in Ukraine,” the ambassador added.
In his opinion, the cluster bombs “are a gesture of desperation” and the US supply of them to Ukraine “speak of the impotence” of Kiev’s Western partners over the course of the war, which today celebrates 500 days.
“However, they refuse to admit their own failures and the collapse of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ attempts to launch an offensive against the Russian regions. That is why they commit new crazy things, ”he emphasized.
In turn, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, María Zajárova, recalled on her own Telegram channel the words of the former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, who would have said on February 28, 2022 that the use of cluster bombs “is a war crime”.