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Pohjois-Korean Venäjän suurlähettilään mukaan Ukrainan sota tullaan muistamaan USA:n toisena Afganistanin sotana ja ATACMSien antamisen todellisena tarkoituksena on heikentää Euroopan valtioita alistaen ne Yhdysvaltain mahdille.
https://iz.ru/1593039/2023-10-21/po...likt-na-ukraine-vtorym-afganistanom-dlia-sshaThe DPRK Ambassador to the Russian Federation called the conflict in Ukraine a “second Afghanistan” for the United States
The conflict in Ukraine , for the support of which the United States is spending astronomical sums, will ultimately become a “second Afghanistan” for them. This statement was made by the DPRK Ambassador to Russia Shin Hong Chol, his words were quoted on Saturday, October 21, by the Korean Central News Agency ( KCNA ).
“The US conflict in Ukraine, in which they spend astronomical sums of money accumulated by the blood tax of their population, <...> will go down in history as the “second war in Afghanistan,” the report says.
American troops have been in Afghanistan since 2001. In 2021, US President Joe Biden decided to end the military operation in the country. After the withdrawal of American troops, supporters of the radical Taliban movement took power in Afghanistan (the organization is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities).
In addition, Sin Hong Chol noted that the US are using all possible means to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, and are exclusively pursuing their hegemonic interests. For example, the delivery of ATACMS missiles to Kyiv, the ambassador believes, will become a catalyst that will allow “to plunge the whole of Europe into the abyss of endless war.”
“And the ultimate goal of supplying ATACMS is the nefarious intentions: to continue the proxy war through Ukraine, to deplete and weaken the overall state power of European countries, thereby more consistently subjugating them to the United States,” the ambassador said.
On October 17, the White House confirmed the transfer of ATACMS with a range of 165 km to Kiev. The press service of the White House National Security Council emphasized that this would increase Ukraine's combat potential, but the Pentagon could not confirm further deliveries of these missiles.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the supply of long-range American ATACMS missiles to Ukraine is harmful. According to him, they pose an additional threat, but Russia will be able to repel such attacks .
On October 19, Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder noted that the United States transferred ATACMS to Kiev for use within the “territory of sovereign Ukraine.” However, he did not name the number of missiles. At the same time, the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Dmitry Kuleba expressed confidence that the United States, after delivering the first batch of long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine, would continue to supply the country with them on a regular basis .
On October 20, Deputy Director of the Department of Information and Press of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexei Zaitsev, said that the fact that the United States transferred ATACMS long-range missiles to Ukraine shows Washington’s desire to escalate the conflict .
Western countries have increased military and financial support for Kiev against the backdrop of the Russian special operation to protect Donbass , the start of which was announced on February 24, 2022 by Russian leader Vladimir Putin after the situation in the region worsened due to shelling by the Ukrainian military.