00:56Russia: West 'will not stop proxy war' in Ukraine, even when 'active phase of conflict' is over - Security Council secretary
Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev claimed NATO intends to prolong the conflict in Ukraine and will not end the proxy war against Russia once its 'active phase' is over in St. Petersburg on Thursday.
Patrushev made the comments while attending a meeting on the training of engineering personnel for shipbuilding and in the Navy.
"The progress of the special military operation in Ukraine shows that the US and NATO intend to continue their efforts to prolong this military conflict and have become participants in it. At the same time, it must be understood that even with the end of the most active phase of the conflict in Ukraine, the Anglo-Saxon world will not stop the proxy war against Russia and its allies," Patrushev said.
According to the Security Council Secretary, the conflict in Donbass was 'the result of years of US preparations for a hybrid war against Russia and an attempt to prevent the formation of a multipolar world'.
On Wednesday, the German government approved the supply of 14 Leopard tanks from Bundeswehr stocks to Ukraine.
Later that day, US President Joe Biden announced that Washington would also deliver 31 M-1 Abrams tanks.
Both leaders claimed that Ukrainian troops would be supplied with the necessary training.
Norway, Poland, Spain, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Finland, and Portugal have also previously announced their readiness to send stocks.
On Thursday, Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitri Peskov claimed that Moscow saw the supply of weapons by Western countries to Ukraine as 'direct involvement' in the conflict.
Russian Ambassador to Germany Sergei Nechayev said that Germany was set on 'permanent escalation' and the 'unlimited pumping of the Kiev regime with more and more lethal weapons'.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.
00:56Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev claimed NATO intends to prolong the conflict in Ukraine and will not end the proxy war against Russia once its 'active phase' is over in St. Petersburg on Thursday.
Patrushev made the comments while attending a meeting on the training of engineering personnel for shipbuilding and in the Navy.
"The progress of the special military operation in Ukraine shows that the US and NATO intend to continue their efforts to prolong this military conflict and have become participants in it. At the same time, it must be understood that even with the end of the most active phase of the conflict in Ukraine, the Anglo-Saxon world will not stop the proxy war against Russia and its allies," Patrushev said.
According to the Security Council Secretary, the conflict in Donbass was 'the result of years of US preparations for a hybrid war against Russia and an attempt to prevent the formation of a multipolar world'.
On Wednesday, the German government approved the supply of 14 Leopard tanks from Bundeswehr stocks to Ukraine.
Later that day, US President Joe Biden announced that Washington would also deliver 31 M-1 Abrams tanks.
Both leaders claimed that Ukrainian troops would be supplied with the necessary training.
Norway, Poland, Spain, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Finland, and Portugal have also previously announced their readiness to send stocks.
On Thursday, Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitri Peskov claimed that Moscow saw the supply of weapons by Western countries to Ukraine as 'direct involvement' in the conflict.
Russian Ambassador to Germany Sergei Nechayev said that Germany was set on 'permanent escalation' and the 'unlimited pumping of the Kiev regime with more and more lethal weapons'.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.