In this group photo released by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with the country’s Minister of Labor and Social Security in Moscow on April 10, 2024.
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Russia said on Sunday that the U.S. Congress’s approval of an additional $60.84 billion in support for Ukraine showed that Washington was moving deeper into a hybrid war with Russia that would end in a humiliation on par with Vietnam or Afghanistan.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has triggered the most serious crisis in relations between Russia and the West since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, Russian and U.S. diplomats said.
On Saturday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a $95 billion legislative package to provide security assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan with broad bipartisan support and despite strong opposition from some Republicans.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said the United States clearly wants Ukraine to “fight to the last Ukrainian,” including attacks on Russian sovereign territory and civilians.
“Washington is getting deeper and deeper into hybrid warfare against Russia, which will bring the United States a resounding and humiliating defeat like those in Vietnam and Afghanistan,” Zakharova said.
Ordinary Ukrainians “were used as ‘cannon fodder’ and forced to be slaughtered,” she said, but the United States was no longer betting on Ukraine’s victory over Russia.
Western and Ukrainian leaders view the war in Ukraine as an imperial land grab, demonstrating that post-Soviet Russia is one of the two nation-state threats to global stability, along with China.
Putin, however, sees the war as part of a larger struggle with the United States, which he says ignored Moscow’s interests after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 and then plotted to divide Russia and plunder its natural resources.
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