Biden's Statement About Putin Shows US Desire to Bury Relations With Russia, Envoy to US Says
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Biden during a luncheon with Ireland's Taoiseach Leo Varadkar on Friday called Putin "a thug" and urged the House of Representatives to approve a Senate-passed foreign aid bill that would provide some $60 billion in additional assistance to Ukraine.
US President Joe Biden's another unacceptable statement about Russian President Vladimir Putin shows the US desire to bury relations with Russia, Ambassador Anatoly Antonov told reporters.
"Another unacceptable outburst is completely in line with the Russophobic line of Washington, which still has a strong desire to bury bilateral ties and inflict a strategic defeat on Russia. There is evidence of impotence from the frankly weak foreign policy results of the [US] administration, which is experiencing one fiasco after another," Antonov said as quoted by the embassy.
He said the United States spares no effort trying to spoil the impression about Russian elections when they are still ongoing.
"It is also clear that Washington spares no effort, trying in vain to spoil the holiday for the Russians, when our united and multi-ethnic people choose their future in the elections of the President of the Russian Federation. The voting is not over yet, but the U.S. authorities are threatening not to recognize the results of the expression of will as well as to apply "punitive" actions against observers," Antonov said.
He said there has been a surge in cyberattacks on remote electronic voting resources.
"At the same time we have noticed a surge of hacker attacks on remote electronic voting resources - obviously not without the help of Western countries. Moreover, a number of terrorist attacks and sabotage by Ukrobanderites against the civilian population are not condemned here. Is that what the proverbial ideals of the Western democracy are and the global majority must blindly follow?" Antonov said.
"Let me point out that the enemies' efforts cannot disrupt the elections of the President of Russia, which are successfully and actively conducted throughout the country as well as abroad. On March 17, Russian diplomats in Washington, D.C., New York and Houston will not only exercise their constitutional right, but will also ensure by all possible means that Russian citizens can go to the polls in a calm and safe environment and make their fateful choice," he said.
