As noted by Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanishina, Kiev hopes to increase Western aidNEW YORK, October 15.
/tass/. The armed forces of the Russian Federation are fighting in Ukraine with units of the Ukrainian army trained by NATO, and this is actually a confrontation between the North Atlantic Alliance and Russia. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine Olga Stefanishina in an interview published on Saturday with Newsweek magazine.
According to her, the current conflict gives "the Russian army valuable experience in fighting, in fact, with the NATO army, which was trained according to NATO standards."..> equipped with the latest NATO equipment."
Stefanishina also noted that Ukraine hopes to increase Western aid to Kiev. "The longer the democratic world demonstrates indecision in actions to hold Russia accountable, the stronger the Russian Federation becomes," she said, adding that Russia "accumulates information and data."
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation in Ukraine in connection with the request of the leaders of the republics of Donbass for help. He stressed that Moscow's plans do not include the occupation of Ukrainian territories, and the goals are demilitarization and denazification of the country. The West, in response to the decision of the Russian Federation, began to gradually impose large-scale sanctions against it and began to supply weapons and military equipment to Kiev in the amount of tens of billions of dollars. A number of Western politicians have admitted that it is, in fact, an economic war against Russia. As Putin stated on March 16, the Western sanctions policy towards Moscow has all the signs of aggression. He pointed out that the policy of containing the Russian Federation is a long-term strategy of the West.
