MOSCOW, June 3. /TASS/. The United States and Europe are eager to supply weapons to Ukraine, because this situation gives them an opportunity to wage a proxy war against Russia, Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview to Qatar’s Al Jazeera television.
"US and European curators are already saying that everything must be done to ensure Ukraine’s victory. But it is Ukraine who is fighting, not the United States or Europe. They don’t want to spare lives of Ukrainians and supply the country with weapons eagerly, including the above-mentioned MLRS [multiple-launch rocket systems], they support Ukraine financially, and, by doing this, they in fact encourage the hostilities to continue," Medvedev said. "Their participation in those hostilities is limited to the so-called proxy war."
He added that at the start, the Kiev government agreed to address most of the issues at the negotiating table.
"They were ready to discuss Ukraine’s neutral status, demilitarization, de-Nazification and - in certain aspects - to recognize territorial realities," he said. "But then they stepped out, because they started to receive lots of money and weapons from Europeans and Americans".