Washington pushing Kyiv to commit terrorist attacks in Russia - envoy to US

The US State Department, with its words about Crimea, is, in fact, pushing the Ukrainian authorities to carry out terrorist attacks in Russia.

Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov made the statement when asked to comment on the statements of US State Department Spokesman Ned Price, about the actual possibility of the Ukrainian armed forces to strike on the Crimean peninsula using American weapons, TASS reports.

"We can state that the rhetoric of American officials is becoming more belligerent. The State Department, through out-of-touch assertions that 'Crimea is Ukraine' and that the Armed Forces of Ukraine can use American weapons to protect their territory, is essentially pushing the Kyiv regime to carry out terrorist attacks in Russia," he said.

"Hearing such remarks from Washington, the criminals in Kyiv will once again feel complete permissiveness. The risks of conflict escalation will only increase," Antonov said as quoted by the embassy’s press service.

Meanwhile, according to the Russian diplomat, American journalists "support such an attitude of the [US] administration and justify strikes of the Kyiv regime against Crimea".

"It should be clear for everyone - we will destroy any weapons supplied to the Zelensky's regime by either the United States or NATO," Antonov stressed.