TE24 International Desk:
Russia said on Tuesday that the United States, the world’s top military power, is directly involved in the conflict in Ukraine because US spies approved and coordinated Ukrainian missile attacks on Russian forces.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has created the most serious crisis in relations between Russia and the West since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, when many feared the world was on the brink of nuclear war.
Russia’s Defense Ministry, led by a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, confirmed to The Telegraph that Vadim Skivitskyi, the deputy director of Ukraine’s military intelligence service, was coordinating Washington’s HIMARS missile strikes. said
“All of this proves unequivocally that Washington is directly involved in the Ukraine conflict, contrary to what the White House and Pentagon claim,” the Pentagon said.
US President Joe Biden says Ukraine hopes to defeat Russia and has sent billions of dollars worth of weapons to Kiev, but US officials say US and Russian troops have clashed. I don’t want a direct confrontation.
Russia says the Biden administration is responsible for rocket attacks on civilian targets in areas controlled by Russia-backed forces in eastern Ukraine.
The Defense Department said, “It is the Biden administration that is directly responsible for the Kiev-sanctioned missile attacks that have caused massive civilian deaths in populated areas of Donbas and elsewhere on residential areas and civilian infrastructure. Russia and the West frame the conflict in Ukraine differently.”
Putin called it a “special military operation” to thwart Western attempts to use Ukraine to threaten Russia and jail Russian-speaking people by dangerous Ukrainian nationalists.
The Kremlin’s 69-year-old leader is increasingly framing the conflict as an existential struggle with the West, reshaping the political world order as a result. .
Kyiv and its Western backers say Putin’s accusations are baseless and that Russia has no legitimate reason to wage an unprovoked war against a sovereign state whose borders they recognize.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who occasionally vacations with Putin in the Russian wilderness, said the operation in Ukraine was proceeding according to plan and that Russia and Russian-backed forces were pushing back Ukrainian forces in the eastern Donetsk region. said
“After controlling the territory of the Luhansk People’s Republic, the Donetsk People’s Republic will be liberated as planned,” Shoigu told a senior general. He said, recently, the settlement of Hanske with the largest thermal power plant in Europe has been occupied.
Neither Russia nor Ukraine reported any damage. US intelligence agencies estimate that in Ukraine so far approx
15,000 Russians were killed. This is Moscow in 1979-1989
Total Soviet death toll during the occupation of Afghanistan. Ukraine’s death toll may be slightly lower, according to US intelligence estimates. Neither Ukraine nor Russia gave detailed accounts of their own casualties.
