What did the US, NATO say after Russia’s warning about supplying rockets to Ukraine?
US Deputy Defense Secretary Colin Kahl and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg spoke out after the Russian side warned that the US decision to supply Ukraine with advanced missile systems would increase the risk of direct confrontation.
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HIMARS launcher fires during an exercise AFP |
Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon on June 1, US Deputy Defense Secretary Colin Kahl said Washington was “aware of the risk of escalation in everything we’re doing” with the conflict in Ukraine. including the latest decision to supply Kyiv with a highly mobile artillery rocket system (HIMARS), according to CNN. Before that, the US President Joe Biden confirmed to send Ukraine HIMARS in a new security aid package worth 700 million USD.
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“President Biden has made it clear that we do not intend to move into direct conflict with Russia. We have no interest in the event that the conflict in Ukraine turns into a wider conflict or World War III so we are aware of that, but at the same time Russia has no right to object to what we send. Ukraine”, Mr. Kahl emphasized. Mr. Kahl added Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky assured President Biden that Kyiv would not escalate the conflict with Russia if the US provided HIMARS to Kyiv.
In addition, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on June 1 told CNN that he did not see the possibility that Russia would respond to the US decision to provide HIMARS for Ukraine. “No, I don’t see that possibility because what NATO and its NATO allies are doing is providing support to Ukraine to exercise its right to self-defence, and this is the right thing to do as outlined in the UN treaty. ” emphasized Mr. Stoltenberg. Mr. Stoltenberg is scheduled to meet President Biden at the White House on June 2 (US time).
Earlier, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov on June 1 criticized the US decision to supply advanced missile systems to Ukraine as extremely negative and would increase the risk of direct confrontation. “Any supply of weapons increases this risk,” Ryabkov said.
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov criticized the US for deliberately adding fuel to the fire when supplying rockets to Ukraine and stressed that Russia did not believe that Ukraine would not use such weapons to fire on Russian territory.
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