© Reuters. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov attends a information convention of Russian President Vladimir Putin after a gathering of the State Council on youth coverage in Moscow, Russia, December 22, 2022. Sputnik/Valeriy Sharifulin/Pool through REUTERS/File Photograph
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The US can’t flip the tide of struggle in Ukraine by pumping tens of billions extra {dollars} into the nation, the Kremlin stated on Tuesday, forward of deliberate talks between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and U.S. leaders.
Zelenskiy will make his case for extra U.S. assist for Ukraine’s struggle in opposition to Russia throughout talks in Washington afterward Tuesday with U.S. President Joe Biden and Congressional leaders at a time of accelerating doubts amongst many Republican lawmakers.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated Russia would “very closely” comply with Zelenskiy’s conferences in Washington.
“It is important for everyone to understand that the tens of billions of dollars pumped into Ukraine did not help it gain any success on the battlefield,” Peskov instructed a daily information briefing.
“The other tens of billions of dollars that Ukraine wants to be pumped into its economy will also be doomed to the same fiasco… This cannot change the situation on the battlefield, but it also can’t change the advance of the ‘special military operation”,” he said.
Moscow describes its military actions in Ukraine, launched on Feb. 24,2022, as a “particular army operation” to demilitarise a rustic it says poses a direct menace to Russian safety pursuits. Kyiv and its Western allies say Russia is engaged in an unprovoked struggle of aggression and a land seize.
Peskov stated Ukraine’s failures on the battlefield had been undermining Zelenskiy’s place.
The following spherical of U.S. assist for Ukraine has been held up by a requirement from Home of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson and different Republicans that no extra funds be dispatched except steps are first taken to tighten controls on the U.S. border with Mexico.
Russia at present controls almost a fifth of Ukrainian territory. Navy frontlines haven’t budged very a lot in latest months regardless of a Ukrainian counter-offensive.
