(Finance) – The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, stated that “the use by Washington of color revolutions and support for the coup in Kiev in 2014 led to today’s conflict in Ukraine”. States United came in its foreign policy statement to the Kremlin, during the ceremony of acceptance of credentials from foreign ambassadors, and reported by the Russian news agency Tass. Putin then argued that American support for the coup d’etat to Kiev in 2014, it is at the root of the deterioration of relations between the Russian Federation and the United States.
Also the Russian news agency Tass then reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin considers i Western intelligence services involved in the preparation of terrorist attacks on Russian territory by Ukraine. “Neo-Nazis and their accomplices operate not only on the territory of the new regions of the Federation, but also commit crimes in other regions of Russia. There is every reason to believe that the potential of third countries, intelligence agencies intelligence Westerners are involved in the preparation of such sabotage and terrorist attacks,” Putin said at a meeting of the Russian Security Council.
During the day, the Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergei Ryabkov, on Sputnik radio he said that Russia and the United States are currently in “a phase of hot conflict“. “We are now in a phase of hot conflict with the United States. We are seeing this country directly involved in a hybrid war with Russia in various ways. Some forms of this warfare are simply unprecedented and could not have existed during the Cold War”, said the diplomat. As for the threat of a nuclear conflict, Ryabkov denounced that the Americans are “absolutely reckless” in many respects.
In New York at the Glass Palace there was a meeting between the US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, and fellow Russian Vassily Nebenzia to talk about the case of the Wall Street Journal reporter, Evan Gershkovich, arrested last week in Russia. “Yesterday I spoke to my Russian counterpart regarding the arrest of an American journalist and made our strong and determined demand that he be released immediately,” Thomas-Greenfield said, arguing that “it is truly beyond any bounds to use a journalist who is already credited to Russia and accuse him of the kind of actions they accused him of”. Gershkovich is currently being held in Lefortovo detention center in Moscow and faces up to 20 years in prison on espionage charges.
Meanwhile, during today’s visit to Poland, the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky signed a memorandum with the Polish government on the reconstruction of Ukraine and an agreement on joint production of ammunition for tanks. The first Polish pinister Mateusz Morawiecki he declared that “Poland was the first to warn against Russia and the first to support Ukraine. Now it wants to be the first to participate in the reconstruction” of the country. Ahead of the meeting, Polish President Andrzej Duda announced that Poland has already sent eight fighter jets MiG-29 and “is ready to send more in the coming days”.