Moscow is bewildered by Washington's warmongering rhetoric, which accompanied President Petro Poroshenko's visit to the US. Russia has also noted all the Russia-unfriendly opinions voiced recently by hawkish American politicians, reports GHN based on RT.
"We'll keep in mind all signals, including those unfriendly towards Russia, that were heard during the visit of the Ukrainian president to Washington," commented Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov. "We do regret that there are quite influential circles [within the American establishment] that are unambiguously working against the emerging stabilization [in Ukraine]," Ryabkov said.
In short, US senators urged to supply Ukraine with arms to fight against Russia and President Putin.
Senator Robert Mendez, a Democrat who runs the Foreign Relations Committee told CNN, "We should provide the Ukrainians with the type of defensive weapons that will impose a cost upon Putin for further aggression.
"This is no longer the question of some rebel separatists. This is a direct invasion by Russia. We must recognize it as that," he said.
In turn, Senator John McCain told CBS's Face the Nation that President Putin was "an old KGB colonel that wants to restore the Russian Empire."
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Senator Mike Rogers, told Fox News, "If we don't provide 'small and effective' now, you're going to get ‘very big and very ugly' later."
The Russian politician pointed out that peaceful initiatives agreed upon in Minsk by the Contact Group on Ukraine are at odds with statements made during President Poroshenko's visit to the US.
"It strengthens us in the opinion that the so-called party of war is strong not only in Kiev," Ryabkov said, adding that some high-ranking American officials and politicians are willfully ignoring any positive outlook for resolving the crisis in Ukraine.
"They are hypocritically advocating normalization of the situation, while actually impeding this process,"Ryabkov said.