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State Duma called for trial of the NATO Secretary General
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.[Regnum] NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg must be tried for his idea of allowing Ukraine to fire Western weapons into Russian territory. This was stated by First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Alexey Chepa.  According to him, Ukraine’s Western allies will not allow their weapons to be used against military targets on Russian territory. “No, they won’t allow it. He will have to be tried for proposals that are pushing the world towards disaster,” the deputy said in an interview with Lenta.ru. As reported by Regnum, on May 25, in an interview with The Economist, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the Kiev regime’s Western allies “the time has come to consider” whether to lift some of the restrictions they have placed on the use of transferred weapons, thereby allowing their use for attacks on Russian territory. Official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova said that it is useful for participants of the conference in Switzerland on the Ukrainian conflict to know about the call by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to lift restrictions for Kiev on strikes on Russian territory. Formal “permission” to strikes with American weapons on Russian territory could lead to a serious escalation of the conflict, this is feared by the administration of US President Joseph Biden, which is trying to ensure the escalation of the Ukrainian conflict on a non-military track, senior researcher at INION RAS, political scientist, noted in a conversation with IA Regnum. Americanist Boris Mezhuev. More from regnum.ru Zakharova on Stoltenberg’s words about strikes on Russian territory For a participant in a conference in Switzerland on the Ukrainian conflict, it is useful to know about the call by the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance (NATO) Jens Stoltenberg to lift restrictions for Kiev on strikes on Russian territory. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova in the Telegram channel. Earlier, Stoltenberg said that Kyiv’s Western allies should lift the current restrictions on Ukraine on strikes with their weapons on Russian territory. “This is useful to know for everyone who is invited to the supposed “peace conference” in Switzerland,” the diplomat commented on the words of the alliance’s secretary general. As Regnum reported, in an interview with The Economist, Stoltenberg noted that the time had come for the allies of the Kiev regime to consider whether they should lift some of the restrictions they had imposed on the use of transferred weapons. He noted that after the offensive of Russian troops in the Kharkov region, Ukrainians became especially irritated that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had to use domestic drones to attack targets on Russian territory. At the same time, the offensive of the Russian army will continue; Ukraine is already experiencing significant difficulties, the secretary general added. Prior to this, on May 21, Politico wrote that a group of American congressmen from both parties called on the Pentagon to “allow” Ukraine to strike Russian territory with weapons supplied from the United States. The congressmen noted that strikes can be carried out against strategic targets and under certain circumstances. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claimed on May 24 that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are already using American and other Western weapons to attack civilian targets in Russia outside the conflict zone. Posted by: badanov 2024-05-26 |
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