Russia says that a hybrid war between the US and Ukraine using Ukraine will lead to a humiliating end like Vietnam

Russia on Sunday said US lawmakers Approved an additional 60.84 billion USD in support against Ukraine shows that Washington is sinking deeper into a hybrid war with Russia that will end in humiliation on a par with Vietnam or Afghanistan.

President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has caused the worst crisis in relations between Russia and the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, according to Russian and American diplomats. .

The US House of Representatives on Saturday with broad bipartisan support passed a $95 billion legislative package to provide security assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, in the face of fierce opposition from some parties. Republican member.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said it was clear the US wanted Ukraine to “fight to the last Ukrainian” including attacks on Russia’s sovereign territory and civilians.

“Washington’s further descent into hybrid war against Russia will become a noisy and humiliating defeat for the United States as well as Vietnam and Afghanistan,” Zakharova said.

She said ordinary Ukrainians were being “forced to be slaughtered as ‘cannon fodder'” but that the United States was no longer betting on Ukraine’s victory over Russia.

Western and Ukrainian leaders have framed the war in Ukraine as an imperialist land grab, presenting post-Soviet Russia as one of the two greatest nation-state threats to stability globally, along with China.

However, Putin presents the war as part of a much larger struggle with the United States, which he says ignored Moscow’s interests after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union and then plotted its partition. Russia and took over its natural resources.