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Yuri Ushakov, assistant to the illegitimate president of the aggressor country Russia, Vladimir Putin, responded to a question from Russian propagandist Pavel Zarubin of Vesti about what Americans could realistically do to bring the fighting in Ukraine to a quick end. The video was published 9 September.
“Well, first of all, probably stop providing any assistance to Kyiv,” Ushakov said. His remark came against the backdrop of visits to Moscow and Kyiv by representatives of U.S. President Donald Trump.
When asked whether that assistance was discussed point by point, he noted that the conversation between Trump and the Kremlin chief “was closed.”
At the same time, Ushakov noted that under President Trump, military assistance to Ukraine has “noticeably decreased” compared with the two previous U.S. presidential terms, when it, in the aide’s words, “had a massive character.”
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha reacted to that answer on the social network X and pointed out that Lavrov’s words about the need to stop U.S. support for Ukraine “in fact exposed Russia’s true intentions,” which seek not genuine diplomacy but to continuously prolong the war.
“The Russian elites exist in a parallel world alongside their leader. They prefer to needlessly sacrifice hundreds of thousands of their people as cannon fodder and drive their economy into free fall rather than end a war they cannot win. Only stronger pressure can cure Russian illusions and finally bring them to the negotiating table,” emphasized the head of the Ukrainian MFA.
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