In order to restore a just peace in Ukraine, the allies need to immediately stop Russia’s military cooperation with China, Iran and North Korea, according to US Chief of Staff Anthony Blinken.
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The head of the US State Department called for an immediate end to Russia’s military cooperation with China, Iran and the DPRK.
Blinken warned that Putin does not want peace and does not recognise Ukraine’s right to exist as a sovereign state.
The Ukrainian government is ready for diplomatic negotiations, but Russia still wants to wage war.
Russia will lose the ability to wage war without the support of its proxies
The head of the US State Department made a statement on this issue during a meeting of the UN Security Council.
According to the diplomat, there are ‘immediate and interconnected’ steps that all of Kyiv’s allies must take.
‘First, we must respond to Russia’s growing cooperation with North Korea and Iran,’ said Anthony Blinken.
He also drew attention to the fact that Iran continues to supply Russia with its attack drones and has built a factory for their production on Russian territory.
Moreover, Tehran has recently handed over hundreds of short-range ballistic missiles to Moscow.
As for North Korea, it supplies Russia with weapons and ammunition, including rocket launchers and millions of artillery shells.
China is the main supplier of machinery, microelectronics, and other goods that Russia uses to restore, replenish, and build up its military machine and support its aggression.
Blinken stressed that Putin does not want peace
The US diplomat has once again warned that the Russian dictator will never want to recognise Ukraine’s right to exist as an independent and sovereign state.
Putin continues to falsely claim that Ukraine is not a real state. In Putin’s eyes, the Ukrainian people, as well as Ukraine itself, do not exist,’ said Blinken.
He also recalled that the team of Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly stated that diplomacy is the only way to end this war and that it is ready to negotiate.
Putin is not interested in such a peace, and recently said that Russia will return to the negotiating table only when Ukraine withdraws its troops from Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions. In other words, when Ukraine retreats from its own territory.