The United States does not intend to send its military to Ukraine to "fight with Russia." Adam Smith, chairman of the US House of Representatives Committee on Armed Forces, said this in an interview with CNN on December 7.
"We did not say that we want to send a couple of thousand soldiers to Ukraine in order to fight with Russia. This is not our position. Our position consists in serious economic sanctions and support for Ukraine in training the military and their supplies," he said.
Earlier on Tuesday, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that the US authorities are making every effort to ensure that the situation around Ukraine does not lead to a military confrontation. He also noted that the delineation of "red lines" in relation to Ukraine in front of the Russian Federation will only worsen the problem.
On the same day, the official representative of the EU Foreign Policy Service, Peter Stano, said that the EU does not accept any aggression against Ukraine and will respond harshly if Russia tries to carry out an attack on it.
On December 6, Dmitry Peskov, the secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, said that the Kremlin sees clearly aggressive Western rhetoric on Ukraine and media stuffing on Russia's allegedly planned invasion of this country. According to him, the tension in Ukraine can be removed only by obtaining a guarantee that Kiev has refused a possible solution to the Donbass problem by force.
At the same time, Peskov noted that Russian President Vladimir Putin would listen with great interest to US President Joe Biden's proposals on Ukraine during the December 7 talks. Peskov added that after the talks, it will be possible to understand how much the proposals of the American side can relieve tension.
