Speaker of the Russian Parliament: NATO to stop sending weapons and mercenaries to Ukraine.
The speaker of the Russian Duma said that if NATO members are seeking peace in Ukraine, they should deliver humanitarian aid to the Ukrainian people instead of providing weapons.
Russian Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin on Saturday called on NATO to stop sending weapons and mercenaries to Ukraine.
According to the China Daily, Volodin said in a statement: “[Ukraine] is supplied with weapons and ammunition from NATO countries. “The mercenaries who fill the ranks of various Ukrainian nationalist battalions come from and are led by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.”
“So when [Joe] Biden and his NATO allies call for peace, they have to start over,” he said. “They are to blame for the delay in de-Naziization and disarmament in Ukraine and the calming of the situation in that country.”
He went on to say that if Western countries want peace, they should use their financial channels instead of military aid to provide humanitarian aid to the Ukrainian people.
Clashes in Ukraine have entered their fourth week as Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a speech on Thursday marking the anniversary of the annexation of the Crimean peninsula: “The Donbass republics had fallen victim to the Ukrainian government. “The purpose of the Russian operation in Ukraine is to free Donbass from this genocide.”
Western countries, especially the United States, have provided extensive financial and military support to the Ukrainian government in recent years, and have continued to provide mercenaries since the beginning of the conflict.
Putin warned on Wednesday that actions by Western countries, including sending weapons and mercenaries to Ukraine, would bleed the country.
Russia’s president has condemned new Western sanctions against his country over “special operations” in Ukraine, calling them “a serious blow to the global economy as a whole.”