MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Sunday that U.S. lawmakers’ approval of an additional $60.84 billion in support for Ukraine showed Washington was plunging deeper into a hybrid war with Russia that would end in humiliation comparable to that of Vietnam or Afghanistan.
President Vladimir PutinThe full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has triggered the worst crisis in relations between Russia and the West since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, according to Russian and US diplomats.
The US House of Representatives on Saturday passed, with broad bipartisan support, a $95 billion legislative package providing security aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, despite strong objections from some Republicans.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said it was clear the United States wanted Ukraine to “fight to the last Ukrainian,” including attacking Russian sovereign territory and civilians.
“Washington’s deepening immersion in hybrid warfare against Russia will turn into a fiasco as noisy and humiliating for the United States as Vietnam and Afghanistan,” Zakharova said.
She said ordinary Ukrainians were being “forced into slaughter as ‘cannon fodder’” but that the United States was no longer betting on a Ukrainian victory against Russia.
Western and Ukrainian leaders have framed the war in Ukraine as an imperial-style land grab, showing that post-Soviet Russia is one of the two biggest nation-state threats to global stability, alongside from China.
Putin, however, presents the war as part of a much larger struggle with the United States, which he says ignored Moscow’s interests after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and then plotted to divide Russia and seize its natural resources.
(Reporting by Reuters; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)
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