Zakharova: US weapons supplies to Ukraine can have dangerous consequences

US weapons supplies to Ukraine can have dangerous consequences, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing on Thursday.

“Such statements are highly dangerous, while supplies like these will become a factor of instability that won’t help bring peace to Ukraine, which is what presidential administration officials have said. As for long-term prospects, it can have more dangerous consequences,” she said, commenting on Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s call on the US to provide Ukraine with S-300 missile systems as an alternative to imposing a no-fly zone.

According to Itar Tass, Zakharova emphasized that the Ukrainian president’s statement was in line with his reckless and heartless policy towards his own country and people.

 In an address to the US Congress on Wednesday, Zelensky called for imposing a no-fly zone over Ukraine or providing the country with S-300 missile systems, other air defense systems and warplanes as an alternative.

Weapons supplies enter Ukraine under the pretext of humanitarian aid  

Meantime, Member of the Russian State Duma for Crimea “Michael Cherimit” has stressed that funding the extremist nationalist units in Ukraine is being done from abroad under the pretext of humanitarian aid.

Cherimit told Ria Novosti news agency that “many countries are sending weapons to Ukraine under the cover of humanitarian aid”.

The western countries will realize later what they did when the extremist nationalists, who came to these countries under the name of refugees, start imposing their own rules and terrorizing the locals in there, Cherimit warned.

Agencies