Washington, Mar 16:
Russia’s ambassador to the US has slammed Washington for its tacit support of terrorism against Moscow. The US is prepared to condone “terrorist activities” by its “satellite states” in an effort to damage Russia, Anatoly Antonov, has claimed, in an interview with Russian media published yesterday.
The US and the NATO alliance are supporting ‘terrorist actions’ against Russia and he also accused the US of meddling in the ongoing Russian presidential election. Washington will resort to any possible means in its efforts to harm Moscow, Ambassador Anatoly Antonov has claimed.
Washington has been Ukraine’s biggest military donor by far throughout the conflict with Moscow, and Kiev’s forces have used US-supplied weapons in multiple attacks on Russian civilian targets.
American HIMARS missiles have been deployed in strikes on Crimea, while a separate type of US rocket was used in an attempted attack on the bridge linking the peninsula to southern Russia earlier this month.
Officials in Washington have “forgotten that it was precisely Russian President Vladimir Putin who first extended a helping hand to the American people following the September 11 terrorist attack in 2001,” the diplomat reminded.
“Russian-American relations will continue to worsen,” the envoy cautioned, arguing that US officials’ rhetoric poses a “threat to the strategic security of the whole world.”
Earlier, Antonov also alleged that the “direct involvement of the United States in the ongoing Ukraine conflict is condemned by all the peace loving nations, and also warned that further Western participation could lead to the “most unpredictable worrisome consequences.”
His comments came after CIA Director William Burns told a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence this week that additional funding to Ukraine would allow it to conduct “deep penetration strikes in Crimea.”
