21.04.2024, Newsroom | email: info@pronews.gr


Zakharova: The USA will be humiliated in
Ukraine as it was humiliated in Vietnam and
Afghanistan

Harsh announcement from the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Russia believes that the US is in danger of having the
same outcome in Ukraine as the war in Vietnam or
Afghanistan.
According to Russia, the approval by the US House of
Representatives of an additional $60.84 billion in aid to
Ukraine shows that Washington is moving deeper into a
hybrid war with Moscow that will end in humiliation
comparable to the Vietnam wars or of Afghanistan.
Russian military intervention in Ukraine ordered in 2022
by President Vladimir Putin has sparked the worst crisis
in Russia's relations with the West since the 1962 Cuban
missile crisis, according to Russian and US diplomats.
The US House of Representatives yesterday approved
with broad bipartisan support a $95 billion package
providing security assistance to Ukraine, Israel and
Taiwan.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria
Zakharova said it was clear the United States wanted
Ukraine to "fight to the last Ukrainian," with attacks
on Russian soil and Russian civilians among others.
" Washington's ever-deepening immersion in hybrid
warfare against Russia will turn into a resounding
and humiliating fiasco for the United States like in
Vietnam and Afghanistan," Zakharova said.
Russia, he said, would give "an absolute and decisive
response" to the US move to get more involved in the
war in Ukraine.
The United States has repeatedly ruled out sending its
own or NATO troops to Ukraine, which is fighting a
grueling artillery and drone war with Russia along a
heavily fortified 1,000-kilometer front.
The US lost at least 58,000 members of its armed
forces in the Vietnam War (1955-75), which ended
with the victory of communist North Vietnam and
the occupation of the South, while hundreds of
thousands of civilians were killed.
In the war in Afghanistan (2001-2021), the US reported
2,459 people killed and at least 20,000 wounded in the
conflict, which ended with the withdrawal of US-led
coalition forces and the return to power of the Islamist
movement Taliban.

The Soviet Union lost 14,453 members of its armed forces
in the war in Afghanistan (1979-1989). Civilian casualties
in both wars in Afghanistan have been enormous.



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