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(Reuters) – The new $325 million US military aid package for Ukraine is pushing Washington deeper into the “abyss” of the conflict, Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov said early Wednesday.
The package, which includes munitions for air defense systems, munitions and vehicles, comes as Ukraine shapes its long-awaited counter-offensive. In the past week, Ukrainian forces lost some tanks and armored vehicles supplied by Western allies, while initially making small territorial gains.
“The United States is falling deeper and deeper into the abyss of the Ukrainian crisis,” Antonov said in a post to the embassy’s Telegram messaging channel.
“Apparently the United States strategists somehow fail to understand that no amount of weapons, regardless of mercenary involvement, will be able to turn the tide in the course of (Russia’s) special military operation.”
Russia is calling its actions in Ukraine a “special military operation” rather than a war. Kiev and its allies call it an unprovoked act of aggression to seize land.
The United States, the European Union and other allies of Ukraine have sent billions of dollars in military aid to Kiev since the beginning of the Russian invasion in February 2022.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the new US aid on Tuesday, saying on Twitter that it was what the Ukrainian armed forces needed, an “effective help in liberating the territories temporarily occupied by the Russian aggressor”.
(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; editing by Simon Cameron-Moore)
