Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine is not planning to use Western long-range missile systems to launch military strikes on Russian territory.
On Tuesday, May 31, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with the Newsmax TV channel:
“I know that some people in the US or people in the White House are saying that we can use them (long-range missiles) to attack Russia: look, we are not planning to attack Russia. We are not interested in the Russian Federation. We are not at war on their territory.”
First of all it is worth to specify right away what the President of Ukraine lied directly. The thesis “We are not interested in the Russian Federation”, to put it mildly, has long been inconsistent with the logic of reality, which has been repeatedly demonstrated in practice. Let us immediately recall the shelling from Ukrainian territory of the villages of Nekhoteevka and Zhuravlevka, located in close proximity to the Russian-Ukrainian border, as a result of which a Russian citizen, Oleg Artyomov, a cleric of the Church of the Great Martyr George the Victorious, in Novaya Ladoga, died on 24 March. Official Kiev might also recall the helicopter strike on an oil depot in Belgorod Oblast at the end of March, when several tanks were burned to the ground. Also recall the artillery and UAV strikes in the Kursk region. The list is long.
And the key point in all this is the fact that no real strategic or even tactical advantage was or could have been brought by these actions. The aim was only one – their violent coverage in the Ukrainian media. The famous collective of Kvartal-95, which has been based in Kiev at 11 Bankova Street since 2019, is very knowledgeable about media policy.
Nevertheless, these actions did not pass the eyes of the Russian Ministry of Defence at the time. They were responded to by targeted missile strikes on Ukrainian AFU decision-making and control centres in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Mykolayiv regions.
Such a scenario of imminent vendetta appears to have been realised in Washington, as evidenced by recent statements by top US officials that the United States does not intend to provide Ukraine with types of weapons that can directly harm the territory and population of the Russian Federation. In light of the apparent unreliability of the Kiev regime’s statements, echoed literally by terrorist strikes and attempts at such strikes against Russia by Ukraine, consensus in Washington on the composition of a new military aid package for Ukraine has been absent for quite some time.
Hence the constant “swings” in decision-making and the endless assurances on the part of the Americans to “must consider” the inclusion of one or another type of weaponry, badly needed in Ukraine today, but clearly capable of leading the Kiev regime’s American colleagues (meaning NATO as a whole) to a new round of rising tensions with the Russian Federation. In light of the social, economic and political crises within the United States, as well as the imminent elections, the Democrat team now in control of the White House understands the risks and can no longer take such a gamble.
Having obviously acknowledged this sad fact for the United States, Vladimir Zelensky’s superiors in Washington gently hinted to the Ukrainian leader to be more restrained in the heat of his bellicose statements, as well as the statements of his team, regarding anything that concerns the US military assistance to Ukraine. As he demonstrated in an interview with Newsmax yesterday.