🇷🇺 🇺🇸 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov's #answer to a media question
❓: Dear Ambassador, what do you think of the continuing arms supplies to #Ukraine by the United States and its allies?
💬 Anatoly #Antonov: Pumping the #Kiev regime with weapons and sending foreign mercenaries to the Ukrainian territory is irresponsible and extremely dangerous. The militarization of Ukraine poses a direct threat to the European and global security.
🔷 The transfer of lethal weapons takes place through the arbitrary interpretation of national export control legislations by the authorities of Western countries. Licenses are often approved in a "simplified" mode. As a result, a significant part of weapons falls into the hands of bandits, Nazis, terrorists and criminals.
🔷 Do Western countries not realize that militants who have come from all over the world to #Europe can afterwards apply the combat experience gained in Ukraine anywhere, including back at home? Do they not understand the risks of the spread of missile weapons transferred to the Armed Forces of Ukrane across the European Union and neighboring regions as well as their use against civil aviation?
🔷 US politicians who make decisions regarding the uncontrolled supply of Stingers and other combat systems to Kiev should abandon their illusions and complacency. The #USA is not an isolated "island of prosperity". There is no guarantee that the weapons would not fall into the hands of extremists on its territory.
🔷 NATO member states have apparently forgotten how the United States were fishing the #MANPADS handed over to the #Afghan mujahideens in the 1980s throughout the entire Middle and Near East. And now, in the pursuit of financial gain, companies of the military-industrial complex have completely lost their moral guidelines and are willing to earn blood money.
🔷 We call on sponsors of the Kiev regime to stop encouraging bloodshed in Ukraine and give a serious consideration to the consequences of their activities.

🇷🇺🇺🇸 Remarks by Russian Ambassador to the United States
Anatoly #Antonov at the Schiller Institute "Conference to Establish a New Security and Development Architecture for All Nations":

💬 The new Russia made an attempt to meet the West halfway. We demonstrated our readiness to compromise, making unforgivable concessions in some cases. The West cynically took advantage of such a constructive approach.

❗️ The Russian Side finds efforts of the NATO members to "militarily explore" the territories of Ukraine and Georgia and establish a network of US biolabs along our borders totally unacceptable!

☝️ Today it is extremely important to achieve the demilitarization and deNAZIfication of Ukraine. There should be no threats to the Russian Federation coming from the Ukrainian territory. This is the objective of our special military operation.

✍️"A Russian Perspective on the Food Crisis" article by Ambassador Anatoly #Antonov specially for The National Interest:

🔗 https://nationalinterest.org/feature/russian-perspective-food-crisis-203055


💬 If Washington really wants to improve the situation in the global agricultural market, let us cooperate.
Russia has become a target for accusations that have nothing to do with reality. Our country is being imputed with trying to take steps aimed at deliberately degrading global food security, preventing Ukrainian agricultural exports by sea, and blocking the sowing campaign in that country. It’s time to put an end to these speculations. <...>