Head of the Luhansk People's Republic Leonid Pasechnik LUHANSK, Jan 31 US congressmen «will definitely break their teeth» , trying to crush the republics of Donbass, said the head of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) Leonid Pasechnik. Earlier, the US Congress prepared a draft sanctions against Moscow, which proposes to declare «Russian-supported» forces in the Donbass terrorists.
"Against the republics already a huge number of conceivable and unthinkable sanctions have been introduced, just because we exist and dared to defend our rights and our beliefs. The United States has been trying to crush Cuba with various sanctions for 60 years, and nothing comes of it. And they will definitely break their teeth about us", Pasechnik said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
The head of the LPR explained that he sees no obstacles that would prevent American legislators from «implanting» democracy «only in the way they understand it and how it is beneficial for them in their own congress.» “After eight years of war, threats, pressure, I don’t care at all about such actions and statements. Today I have a lot of other tasks and challenges that need to be addressed in our republic,” Pasechnik stressed. Recently, the Kiev authorities and the West are constantly accusing Russia in that it is allegedly preparing an invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin has repeatedly stated that they do not hatch any aggressive plans and do not threaten anyone, and the movement of troops across Russian territory should not worry anyone. technology. Tensions in the region are fueled by the United States and other NATO countries, which supply Ukraine with weapons and military instructors, and also increased the number of exercises in the Black Sea. Moscow believes that the West is trying to create a grouping of troops near the Russian borders.France explained the economic failure of UkraineSince 2014, NATO countries, led by the United States, have been supplying weapons to Ukraine and training its military, which directly violates the Minsk agreements and negatively affects the settlement in Donbass. In addition to the Americans, Great Britain, Canada, France, Poland, Turkey, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania, and Estonia participate in deliveries totaling billions of dollars. The United States supplied Ukraine with Javelin anti-tank missile systems, patrol boats, sniper rifles and counter-battery radar stations, the UK — NLAW anti-tank grenade launchers, Turkey — Bayraktar TB2 attack drones. Ukraine and the UK signed a memorandum that provides for the joint design and construction of warships on the territory of the two countries and the construction of two Ukrainian naval bases. Relations between Moscow and Kiev deteriorated after the reunification of Crimea with Russia and against the background of the armed conflict in the Donbass. The Ukrainian authorities have repeatedly accused Russia of interfering in the internal affairs of the state, and in January 2015 they officially declared it an «aggressor country.» Moscow has repeatedly stressed that it does not participate in the intra-Ukrainian conflict and is not a subject of the Minsk agreements.