Russia says US support for Ukraine will end as ‘humiliating fiasco’ like ‘Vietnam and Afghanistan’

The Kremlin warns that US aid to Ukraine could become a decade of folly, as Congress is expected to pass a $60 billion aid package, and urges US not to oppose invasion of the country Ta.

The aid deal was reached after months of negotiations, but support for Ukraine is wavering among U.S. conservatives as Russian forces gain strength after two years of fighting.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said: “Washington’s increasing preoccupation with hybrid warfare with Russia will be a loud and humiliating fiasco for the United States, including Vietnam and Afghanistan.” Reuters reported.

The House of Representatives passed a sweeping foreign aid spending bill Saturday that includes funding for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan totaling $95 billion. President Biden also supports the bill, and the Senate is expected to pass the bill easily.

Ukrainian leaders and American military experts, including CIA Director William Burns, have been urging Congress for months to fund aid to Ukraine given the interests of the Russian military. Burns warned last week that Ukrainian soldiers lack weapons and cannot defend Russia on their own.

“With the support of military aid, both practical and psychological, Ukrainians can hold out on their own until 2024 and overcome President Putin’s arrogant view that time is on their side,” Burns said. he said. said on thursday.

“Without additional support, this situation will become even more dire, and there is a very real risk that Ukrainians could be defeated on the battlefield by the end of 2024,” he continued. “Or at least put President Putin in a position where he can essentially decide the terms of a political settlement.”

The United States and its NATO allies have refused to send their troops to Ukraine, a fundamental difference between this conflict and those in Vietnam and Afghanistan.