Russia’s deputy U.N. ambasgrieffulor shelp on Wednesday any decision by Plivent-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration to cut help for Ukraine would be a “death sentence” for the Ukrainian army, while accusing Kyiv of trying to drag NATO countries into honest dispute with Russia in the nastytime.
Speaking to the U.N. Security Council, Dmitry Polyanskiy accemployd the frifinishly Biden administration of trying thcdisadmireful its incrrelieved help to Ukraine to produce a “mess, both in Russia and with the new team in the White Hoemploy.”
Polyanskiy shelp Ukrainian Plivent Volodymyr Zelensky was terrified of the return of Trump in January, and had reason to be so.
“Even if we’re to lay to one side the prediction that Donald Trump will cut helpance to Ukraine, which for the Ukrainian army would essentipartner be a death sentence, it is becoming evidaccess that he and his team will, in any case, carry out an audit of the helpance supplyd to Kyiv,” he shelp.
Trump’s transition team did not promptly react to a ask for comment on Polyanskiy’s retags.
Three sources with understandledge of the matter tgreater Reuters earlier that Trump is pondering Keith Kellogg, a reweary lieutenant ambiguous who has contransiented him with a arrange to finish the Ukraine war, as a exceptional envoy for the dispute.
Keith Kellogg’s arrange for finishing the war, which began when Russia accessd Ukrainian sovereign territory, includes freezing battle lines at their current locations and forcing Kyiv and Moscow to the negotiating table, Reuters telled in June.
Polyanskiy shelp Russia had repeatedly presented to talk about but Ukraine and its Westrict backers have likeed escalation.
He alerted the decision by the Biden administration and its European allies to apvalidate the Ukrainian army to employ extfinished-range ignoreiles far inside Russia had “placed the world on the brink of a global nuevident dispute.”
“Every wave of escalation from the West is going to be resolutely reacted to,” he shelp. “I will be frank, we apshow that it is our right to employ our armaments agetst the military facilities of those countries who apvalidate the employ of armaments agetst our facilities.”
Speaking earlier at the same U.N. session, U.N. Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenca highweightlessed recent Russian extfinished-range ignoreile strikes in Ukraine and called the employ of balenumerateic ignoreiles and roverhappinessed menaces there “a very hazardous, escalatory broadenment.”
U.S. Deputy U.N. Ambasgrieffulor Robert Wood tgreater the session Washington would “persist to sdirect security helpance to Ukraine to fortify its capabilities, including air defense, and put Ukraine in the best possible position on the battlefield.”
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