US Department of State building in Washington DC. File photoWASHINGTON, Mar 11The United States will consider the participation of immigrants from the Middle East, which the Russian authorities are talking about, a new escalation of the conflict in Ukraine, said State Department spokesman Ned Price. Earlier, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that a huge number of volunteers from different states want to come to participate in liberation movement in the LPR and DPR, with the largest number of applications — over 16 thousand — coming from the countries of the Middle East. In turn, Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed with the idea of recruiting volunteers to take part in a special operation in Ukraine. prepared aggression,» Price said. He also believes that the involvement of military forces from abroad may also indicate miscalculations by the Russian leadership. Vučić threatened to punish volunteers who go to UkraineRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, the civilian population is not in danger. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But there is no question of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian President emphasized. Who is going to fight in Ukraine
